Grid Connections

Grid Connection

Unlock your investment in generation, storage, EV charging or electricity demand growth with specialist grid connection advice.

Getting the right grid connection at the right cost will often determine the viability or profitability of an energy scheme.  Our unrivalled combination of commercial, strategic, tactical and technical grid expertise can enable many projects and our independent approach gives you the best possible chance of achieving the right and viable connection at the lowest cost and least risk.

Our Connectologists® bring together over seventy years of stellar network experience, wielded with the emotional intelligence and soft skills necessary to bring the very best out of our clients and our network operator colleagues alike. They are supported by our operations, finance and business development teams who give them a robust, safe, efficient, happy and profitable platform from which to consistently deliver extraordinary results for our clients.​

Grid Connection

What service suits you?

Feasibility studies

Feasibility
Study

Assessments for viability of power generation and storage schemes for energy scheme developers, funds and landowners.

Grid Applications

Connection Application

Optimal connection solutions and connection applications for the distribution and transmission networks.

Connection offer review

Connection Offer Review

Identify the project-making opportunities and project-breaking issues that could either earn you or save you £millions.

Connections Management

Connections Management

Project managing connections from feasibility to energisation to minimise cost and risk, and accelerate delivery timescales.

Our Connectologists

Our connections specialists are amongst the brightest engineering minds in the UK, and are leaders in their field.

Pete Aston Roadnight Taylor

Pete Aston

Specialist Connections Engineer

Headed WPD’s EHV design team, led its ANM rollout, transmission boundary processes with National Grid and responsibility for >500 EHV connection offers per annum 

Catherine Cleary

Catherine Cleary

Specialist Connections Engineer

MEng from Oxford, research at Princeton, headed grid teams at TNEI and GRIDSERVE, led advice to Ofgem, HS2, DfT and  >500 distribution and  transmission connections 

Philip-Bale

Philip Bale

Specialist Connections Engineer

Headed WPD’s East Mids EHV design team, led four WPD/Ofgem innovation projects, including 1st ANM scheme and curtailment assessment model, and managed 145 EHV connections 

Nikki Pillinger Roadnight Taylor

Nikki Pillinger

Specialist Connections Manager

MSc in Energy Policy, headed grid teams at GRIDSERVE and British Solar Renewables, spearheaded the origination, de-risking, project management and energisation of a significant number of connections

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