Executive Summary
- 77% of the grid connection queue in Great Britain has responded to NESO’s 2024 requests for information, revealing 559 GW of projects awaiting connection across all technologies.
- Battery energy storage capacity is up to seven times oversupplied in some distribution zones, with projects far exceeding Clean Power 2030 (CP30) targets.
- NESO’s connections reform will introduce a ‘first-ready and needed, first connected’ process, with Gate 1 offers expected to begin in Q2 2025.
Subscribers to Modo Energy’s Research will also find out:
- Which regions are most oversupplied with battery projects, and where new connections still have room to grow.
- How NESO’s new Strategic Alignment Criteria could allow some projects to exceed CP30 capacity limits.
- What the next steps in grid connection reform mean for developers, and how Ofgem’s upcoming decision will shape 2025 connections.
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What’s happening with grid connection reform?
By October 2024, 77% of the capacity in the grid connections queue in Great Britain had indicated whether or not they would be ‘ready’ to connect to the grid by 2030, as part of the ongoing grid connections reform work.
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) launched in 2024. These gathered data on the ‘readiness’ of projects in the connection queue. This looked at the ability of developers in the connection queue to meet land rights and planning status criteria needed for a connection date by 2030.