People affected by the proposed Norwich to Tilbury and schemes for pylons near Walpole in west Norfolk are among 43 projects named in the scope of Labour's 'bills discount scheme'. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said they could ultimately get £2,500 off their electricity bills over 10 years through the discounts. Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh (Image: Roger Harris / UK Government)National Grid says the 50m high Norwich to Tilbury pylons, which would stretch over miles of countryside, including near Diss, are needed to carry power from wind farms off Norfolk's coast to the Thames Estuary. But critics, including parish councils, Norfolk and Suffolk county councils and the Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action group, say the plans will ruin the countryside around Diss and the Waveney Valley. When former prime minister Rishi Sunak previously suggested energy bill discounts for communities affected, members of the Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons gave the idea short shrift, branding them "token cash bribes".