Overview
- Enexis disclosed Thursday that about 86,000 of 140,000 new-build connection requests submitted under the transition arrangement currently have no space on its network.
- Netbeheer Nederland says roughly 600,000 connection applications have been filed nationwide for the next three years and that nearly half lack immediate capacity on local networks.
- Some 55,000 of Enexis’s unconnectable homes are concentrated in Oost-Brabant, which could delay housing delivery in that fast-growing region.
- Net operators propose three main remedies—speeding up cable and station reinforcements, cutting or shifting household demand with measures like home batteries and net-aware building, and negotiating load-shifting with large industrial users—but all will take time and money and need municipal cooperation.
- The surge of filings followed the July 1 rule change that stopped reserving grid capacity for small consumers and created a pre-deadline rush of developer and household applications that exceeded local station limits.