Government to crack down on speculative grid requests, after queue grows five-fold in six months

Stuart Stone
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Government moves to prioritise strategically important connection requests from AI data centres, EV infrastructure, and industrial sites that can deliver growth and green jobs

The government has today launched a consultation on proposals to tackle speculative grid connection applications, after being swamped by a 460 per cent increase in the number of such requests in the six...

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