A collection of Roadnight Taylor’s articles about grid connection charging.
Cancellation liabilities are the cost of works that customers are underwriting, and securities are a partial down payment against those liabilities. Here we explain more about the charges and what they mean for different types of customer.
A Cost Apportionment Factor (CAF) is part of the method by which electricity network reinforcement costs are passed on to connecting customers. A CAF is applied up to the level of the high-cost cap. Here we explain more.
Recent changes to charging rules make it essential to properly define when demand is‘final’, as in used onsite, and what was ‘non-final’ and due to be exported back into the network.
The Minimum Scheme is the grid connection design that provides the required capacity at the lowest overall capital cost, as estimated by the Distribution Network Operator. It has its nuances though, as Pete Asont explains.
A high-cost cap is a way of limiting the amount of cost a Distribution Network Operator (DNO) might have to pick up from new grid connections. Pete Aston explains more below.
The difference between network reinforcement and network extension can seem trivial but it makes a massive difference to how new schemes are charged.
We explain second comer charges for distribution networks, payment of charges and the presentation of second comer charges in connection offers
Interactivity is when two or more grid connection applications will make use of the same part of the network and where not all the applications can proceed.
