安迪·伯纳姆将于周二迈出将英国公用事业公司纳入公共控制的第一个重大步骤，宣布成立一个新的由政府支持的机构，投资于电网。
Andy Burnham will take the first major step to putting Britain’s utility companies into public control on Tuesday, as he announces a new government-backed body to invest in the electricity grid.
这位首相将利用他作为工党领袖的首次会议演讲宣布成立“大不列颠电网”（GB Grid），该机构将使用此前分配给“大不列颠能源”（Great British Energy）的资金，与国家电网（National Grid）等私营企业展开竞争。
The prime minister will use his first conference speech as Labour leader to announce the creation of GB Grid, which will use money previously allocated to Great British Energy to compete with privately owned companies such as National Grid.
这一宣布标志着他朝着兑现将“生活必需品”置于公共控制之下的承诺迈出的首个重要步伐——尽管内阁大臣们仍在纠结如何兑现诸如将泰晤士水务公司国有化等更为激进的政策。伯纳姆将在会议上表示：“我们面临一场成本危机。我们都心知肚明。能源价格让企业不堪重负，而英国的电费账单支付者承担着欧洲最高的能源成本之一。”
The announcement marks his first significant move towards delivering on his promise to put “the essentials of life” under public control – even as ministers wrestle with how to deliver on more radical policies such as nationalising Thames Water Burnham will tell the conference: “We have a cost crisis. We all know it. The price of energy is crippling for businesses, and British billpayers pay some of the highest energy costs in Europe.
“我们的能源体系中，价格由千里之外的市场决定，而这里的家庭和企业却承担着成本。英国公众再一次失去了控制权。”
“We have an energy system where prices are dictated in markets miles away, while families and businesses here shoulder the costs. Once again, the British public has lost control.”
他将补充说：“在10年内，我希望我们的能源成本与欧洲其他国家持平。这意味着我们必须改革一个破碎的能源市场，使其服务于公共利益。”伯纳姆作为领袖的首次会议演讲，标志着他的政治命运自去年此时以来发生了显著逆转——当时他因公开谈论希望取代基尔·斯塔默而受到党内许多人的批评。
He will add: “Within 10 years, I want our energy costs to be in line with other nations in Europe. That means we must reform a broken energy market so it serves the public interest.” Burnham’s first conference speech as leader caps a remarkable turnaround in his political fortunes since this time last year, when he was criticised by many in the party for talking openly about his desire to replace Keir Starmer.
在将斯塔默赶下台后，伯纳姆在上任头几周的大部分时间里都在承诺逆转他所称的“40年新自由主义”。
Having now ousted Starmer from office, Burnham has spent much of his first few weeks promising to undo what he calls “40 years of neoliberalism”.
成立“大不列颠电网”是他挑战私营企业运营英国基础设施权力的第一个重大步骤。
The creation of GB Grid is his first significant step to challenging the power of private companies to run Britain’s infrastructure.
该机构将获得已分配给政府支持的“大不列颠能源”的40亿英镑资金——不过预计不会使用全部资金。
The organisation will given access to a pot of £4bn which has already been allocated to the government-backed Great British Energy – though is not expected to use all of that money.
由于企业抱怨新建筑和项目接入电网耗时过长，GB Grid将利用这笔资金建设更多连接，并最大限度地加快可再生能源在全英国的推广。它将成为自私有化以来电力网络中首个公有运营商。
With businesses complaining about how long it takes to get a grid connection for new buildings and projects, GB Grid will use this funding to build more connections, as well as to maximise and speed up the rollout of renewables across the UK. It will be the first publicly owned player in electricity networks since privatisation.
官员们表示，政府还将扩大企业自建连接的权利，允许它们动用GB Grid的资金来帮助支付相关费用——他们称此举帮助爱尔兰将连接速度加快了11个月。
Officials said the government would also expand the rights of businesses to build their own connections, allowing them to tap GB Grid’s funding to help pay for it – a move which they said helped speed up connections in Ireland by 11 months.
能源大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒周一在《卫报》的《政治周刊》播客节目中表示：“我对上一届政府感到失望的一点是，他们没有认识到投资该系统的必要性，因此我们不得不在未来十年内以创纪录的速度来做这件事。”
Speaking to the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast on Monday, the energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh said: “One of my frustrations with the last government is that they didn’t recognise the need to invest in the system, and so we’re having to do that at record pace over the next course of the next decade.
“我们所有人都有责任确保以最具成本效益的方式来完成这件事。”
“It is incumbent on all of us to make sure we’re doing it in the most cost-effective way.”