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Network Innovation Allowance (NIA)
It is our vision to be an enabler of the transition to Net Zero and to be sustainably cost-efficient. The Network Innovation Allowance plays an important role in supporting this vision.
Our latest NIA report
Click below to see our latest progress and results from regulatory year 2023/24 including a range of stats and insights, from over a dozen industry-leading projects
How we innovate
How we innovate
We’ve developed an innovation strategy that establishes our vision, focus and our approach to ideas, collaboration and roll out.
How we innovate
We encourage a culture of innovation across all areas of the business, actively working together to gather, assess, and prioritise innovative ideas.
How we innovate
Our defined approach ensures a rich stream of innovative ideas and a consistent review process to determine which to pursue.
How we innovate
Our rigorous and structured approach ensures the successful delivery of innovation projects from concept, through to delivery and transfer into BAU.
How we innovate
Innovation is only successful when we share and communicate our learnings, which we do through internal and external knowledge dissemination events.
How we innovate
Our innovations deliver quantifiable benefits when we embed the new knowledge solutions into our everyday practices to improve the way we work and serve our customers.
How we innovate
We rigorously track and report on the benefits our innovation projects deliver.
Working together
Our partners are key to helping us deliver our extensive portfolio of innovation projects. We are always on the lookout for new partnerships and projects that can make a real difference and have committed to providing 75% of our Network Innovation Allowance funding to third party innovators.
If you have an idea that could reshape or revolutionise the way we work, we want to hear from you.
Submit an idea