Energy & Grid

Build your pipeline around the 283 GW that actually got a grid offer.

UK and Ireland grid, transmission and connections intelligence.

Thirteen volumes on this sector, every figure traced to a named primary source and carried at a stated verification date. We read the Ofgem determinations, the NESO publications and the transmission owners’ business plans so that you do not have to. Scroll down to see what is in them.

The problem

The connection queue ran to 738 GW. Britain can build 225.

Roughly three to four times what the country can physically build by 2030.

The root cause

Why did it stall? Allocation, not generation, was the bottleneck.

NESO’s Connections Reform Results, published 8 December 2025, reshaped those 738 GW of applications into 283 GW of Gate 2 offers.

The turn

Thirteen volumes tell you which side of the gate you are on.

Every Gate 2 offer, every DNO licence area, every RIIO-ED3 business-plan window — read from the primary source and dated.

Proof

National Grid alone plans up to £35bn between 2026 and 2031.

We track it against what actually gets built: EGL1 and EGL2 have already moved from a £3.4bn Ofgem estimate in 2022 to £5.594bn.

What you get

Check whether the project you are bidding for holds a Gate 2 offer, and when its window opens.

Track the five Eastern Green Link projects against their approved budgets, contractors and dates, quarter by quarter.

Read the RIIO-ED3 business plans of all five GB DNO groups before the build envelope closes in December 2026.

See which of the 14 licence areas is moving fastest, and which team inside it makes the decision.

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John McKennaManaging Director · Hitachi Energy
Volumes in this sector

The 13 reports in this sector cover the named UK programmes, the procurement windows, the supplier positioning and the regulatory timelines that decide who builds what, and when.

Watch this sector live on the boards — the Heatmap for its projects, the Data Board for its targets against delivery.

Gap 03

UK DNO Capacity Headroom.

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Gap 05

RIIO-ED3 Business Plan Decode.

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Gap 11

Eastern Green Link + ASTI.

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Gap 12

Demand-Side Response in 2029.

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Gap 13

The Hydrogen Allocation Round.

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Gap 15

NESO Connections Reform.

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Gap 17

UK Storage Strategy 2030.

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Gap 18

AI Growth Zones.

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Gap 20

The London Headroom Cliff.

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Gap 24

UK Net Zero Investment Map.

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Gap 25

UK Critical Minerals + the Grid.

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Gap 26

The UK Infrastructure Skills Gap.

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Gap 27

UK Answer to the IRA.

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Open any volume and you get consultancy-grade depth: twelve findings, headline figures, the Director’s Six-Check, a glossary of named entities, and twelve named UK suppliers per category. deep report PDF + two-page Crib Sheet + quarterly Currency Addendum.

£295 single volume · £995 annual subscription: one named reader — the full multi-volume catalogue, every new volume released during the year, and subscriber briefing extras. Team £2,495/yr (up to 10 named readers) · Enterprise £4,995/yr (whole company, up to 250 employees) · Corporate £9,995/yr (above 250 employees).

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