Government rules out underground cabling in National Grid upgrade

Rollout of pylons in countryside is a cheaper, quicker way to integrate green electricity, energy adviser says

The government has ruled out burying electricity cables underground as part of its energy strategy, which will involve the unrolling of hundreds of pylons across the British countryside, Ed Miliband's clean energy adviser has said.

Chris Stark, the former leader of the Climate Change Committee, now heads the government's mission control" department for decarbonising the grid by boosting renewable energy and building connections across the country.