Our team of Connectologists® return for a third podcast in their ‘Grid news and views’ series to discuss some of the most important updates in their field. In this episode our influential connection specialists, among other news, discuss the latest intervention from the ENA and Ofgem regarding the treatment of storage.

1. Changes to the planning regime for onshore wind, and whether they are significant enough to cause a rush of connection applications in England - or even cancellations

Recorded 6 September 2023

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With the choice of applying for a Bilateral Embedded Generator Agreement (BEGA) or a Bilateral Embedded Licence Exemptible Large Generator Agreement (BELLA) having such high potential impacts on the viability, cost or timing of a connection - and therefore on a project - it pays to understand the implications as well as the high-level choices you will have to make.

Diligent development Directors and Investment Directors will be better placed to make the right calls after listening to this episode, in which two of Roadnight Taylor’s elite connection specialists – Connectologists® Catherine Cleary and Pete Aston – discuss the fundamentals, and where they have seen others go wrong.

Recorded 6 September 2023

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Changing from a BEGA to a BELLA 

Notification of Insufficient System Margin (NISM) Overview

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Insights to help you understand projects’ abnormal running risks, and how to mitigate them.

With the levels of risk involved in consenting or acquiring transmission-connected projects, understanding outage risk should be near the top of any good Development or Investment Director's list.

In this podcast hosted by Pete Aston, two other Roadnight Taylor elite connection specialists (Connectologists®) Catherine Cleary and Philip Bale, discuss the key themes that they will cover in an upcoming webinar on this increasingly popular subject. 

The webinar is on Wednesday 8 November. More details will follow on our website later, but you can register on Zoom here.

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Our team of Connectologists® return for a second podcast in their ‘Grid news and views’ series to discuss some of the most important updates in their field. In this second episode our influential connection specialists, among other news, discuss National Grid’s long term connections reform piece, exploring the changes it results in, and when we can expect an industry update.

Additionally, the podcast addresses other topics, with both specific and wider breadths:

1. The modification to the commercial connection use of system charging and who it benefits

Recorded: 03 August 2023

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Our four Connectologists® get together again to give their views on some of the key news topics in the connections industry.

Among other topics they discuss:

1. NGESO's recent letter about battery connections being able to connect ahead of non-critical enabling works

Recorded: 11 July 2023

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In this Connectology® podcast, two of Roadnight Taylor's Connectologists® - Specialist Connections Engineer, Catherine Cleary, and Specialist Connections Manager, Nikki Pillinger - discuss the perils and pitfalls to avoid once a great grid connection offer has been accepted.

Recorded: April 2023

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In this podcast, Pete Aston explains why we are hosting an upcoming webinar to share insight to help Development and Investment Directors understand abnormal running risk, and how to go about mitigating the issues identified in their schemes.

The webinar is on Wednesday 12 July at 10.00-11.00.

Recorded: 23 June 2023

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In this Connectology podcast, Pete Aston - who was responsible for the rollout of ANM across National Grid Electricity Distribution's networks - guides you through this new landscape.  

Recorded: 13 June 2023

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For the first time, all four of Roadnight Taylor's Connectologists® - Pete Aston, Catherine Cleary, Philip Bale and Nikki Pillinger are together on the same podcast.

In this episode they are discussing the recent connections reform output from National Grid ESO and the Energy Networks Association, as well as Ofgem's open letter on future reform to the electricity connections process, in which it invites feedback from stakeholders by 16 June 2023.

The ESO's Five Point Plan

The ENA's Three Point Plan

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Energy scheme developers make big calls in deciding whether to take projects forward into planning – and investors make even bigger calls at Final Investment Decision (FID).

Increasingly, there will be at least some risk of curtailment associated with their connections, and often all that they will have to go on is a curtailment report issued by the Distribution Network Operator (DNO).

In this podcast, Connectologists® Pete Aston and Philip Bale explain why they wanted to share, on their upcoming connectology® webinar, insight into ANM and the DNOs' reports, what they will be covering and who will benefit.

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