Andy Burnham has backed island calls for community energy companies to be given priority access to the national grid. Speaking in the Commons for the first time the new Prime Minister said he supported my efforts to get community windfarms first in the queue for connections to the grid. Since being elected in 2024, I have been pressing for reform of grid connections and for community-owned companies to be pushed up the queue for connections to the 1.8GW Minch interconn