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"Protest parties" is dismissive from the start. Then you talk about UKIP, as though the Greens are equivalent. Here's one difference: UKIP and Reform are both one-man-shows, with no policies with any specificity. You can go online and see the Greens' policies, and their governance structure is far more member-driven than any other party but Corbyn's rump YourParty (or whatever they're calling themselves these days). They're not perfect, but the alternatives are worse.
Policies that enourage greater energy efficiency, if successfully implemented, will mean that there's less need to expand the grid further, though additional resiliency works would still be worth doing.
I guess it depends on how many of the newly minted green voters have moved across because they have carefully read their policy offering and how many just wanted to vote not-Labour because they were unhappy (i.e. protesting) with the government. Things will become clearer next month and finally at the next general election.
Energy efficiency is great but we still need to get the power from our new shiny off-shore wind farms to where the population centres are. The original grid was very much designed to radiate power from the big generators which are more central (modulo the nuclear generators which tend to be coastal).