TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY
INSPIRATION,
INNOVATION
There are many ingenious ways of making the most of the new regime through power generation, storage and demand fl exibility
The transition to renewables is throwing up exciting innovations says Andy Normand from Encora Energy
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ith electricity demand forecast to double by 2050, the energy industry is busy devising
ways of how best to meet this. There are many ingenious and varied ways of making the most of the new regime through power generation, storage and demand fl exibility. However, the biggest issues are currently with the bit in the middle – grid infrastructure and getting connected.
THE PROBLEMS Over the last few years, submitting grid connection applications has
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become more common only for many developers to fi nd that the earliest connection date is in the mid-2030s, eff ectively killing any project. As a
Andrew Normand
result, most applications don’t get the connection date they request. The queue for connection is now over 500GW, which is many times more than the existing installed capacity and is even signifi cantly more than anticipated total connected capacity for 2050. There is a backlog of projects that have grid connections but are not being built and clearly a large proportion of these will never be built. All this has arisen because developers
have been able to apply for and get speculative grid connections with little consideration of project viability in terms of land availability, planning
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