The Connectology® Podcast by Roadnight Taylor
Roadnight Taylor’s influential team of elite grid connections specialists (Connectologists®) and their expert guests help you to better understand distribution and transmission network connections, and how to acquire them faster, at less cost and at lower risk.
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Roadnight Taylor Connectologist® Pete Aston joins Hugh Taylor to discuss the Significant Code Review (SCR) and the tactics and strategies that could be used by parties in grid connections to game the new system.
There will be many winners and losers under the new connection rules – with £millions being won or lost by developers and investors on individual schemes alone.
Pete sees understanding nuances around point of connection voltage as one of the biggest areas of opportunity – or risk – for connection customers. He explains interim arrangements around flexible connections, including Active Network Management (ANM) and curtailment.
Plus, Pete gives his view on how the nature and importance of post-acceptance offer management – and liaison with the DNO – might change amongst the potential bow-wave of new applications after the 1 April 2023.
Recorded: 26 January 2023
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All risks and opportunities under SCR are discussed in more detail for each market sector in our ‘Game or be Gamed?’ webinars. Links to request the full recordings of these can be found here.
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Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Roadnight Taylor Connectologists® Pete Aston and Catherine Cleary discuss the RIIO-ED2 final determinations with Merlin Hyman, Chief Executive of Regen.
We wanted to talk with Merlin about Regen’s and his concerns about the determinations. £billions are at stake for investment in the development of network infrastructure and the grid and it’s crucial that this is done right to help the nation reach net zero, wean off fossil fuels and reduce energy bills.
Among other things, a better steer from Central Government to Ofgem and a new independent body to define network requirements were discussed as better solutions.
Recorded 25 November 2022
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Regen: https://www.regen.co.uk/
Ofgem RIIO-ED2 final determinations: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/riio-ed2-final-determinations
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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Pete Aston hosts a festive chat with two of our other Connectologists®, Philip Bale and Nikki Pillinger, to find out what they would like the networks and DNOs to receive for Christmas to help improve the connections process and the net zero energy transition.
They include extra funding, support and resource for the DNOs and better joined-up strategies. They've put improved battery modelling, grid queue and application management, transmission reinforcement charging and more on the list for Santa!
Recorded 25 November 2022
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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Gamechanger - might your generation connection timeframes reduce by a decade?
National Grid has radically updated its assumptions around the operation of BESS, and therefore the impact of battery storage on reinforcement requirements.
Two of our Connectologists®, Pete Aston and Catherine Cleary, discuss how this works, how and where grid queues may be freed up to allow more generation and storage to connect much earlier – and what else NGESO might be in the pipeline to help accelerate connections.
Recorded: 25 November 2022
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Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
In this episode, Catherine Cleary, one of our Connectologists®, talks about National’s Grid TEC Amnesty. This is a time limited opportunity for project developers to cancel connection offers that they have already accepted without incurring cancellation charges. Catherine identifies opportunities for the cancellation, downsizing or refining of schemes that can bring benefits for Development and Investment Directors of projects.
Recorded: 21 October 2022
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
The dash for transmission connections started with the developer community seeking tertiary connection opportunities. Many are now being secured and transacted. In this episode, Pete Aston, one of our Connectologists®, gives an overview of what Development and Investment Directors should know about these idiosyncratic connections.
Recorded: 21 October 2022
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Pete’s blog on ‘The problem with tertiary connections’: https://roadnighttaylor.co.uk/connectology/the-problem-with-tertiary-connections/
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
In this podcast, Pete Aston, one of our Connectologists®, gives a brief introduction to the huge topic of the upcoming changes to how connection charges are calculated at distribution level – Ofgem’s Significant Code Review (SCR).
These changes will present both significant risks and opportunities to existing connected projects (including energy generation and storage schemes, and commercial and industrial demand-led schemes), as well as accepted but not yet connected projects, and even those which haven’t been applied for yet.
There will be many losers and many winners as a result of decisions made regarding SCR. Millions will be won and lost on individual projects. Pete gives Investment and Development Directors a sense of what they need to think about to make sure they come out on top.
We will be running a series of webinars called ‘Game or be Gamed’ on the SCR topic.
Recorded: 21 October 2022
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Who are Roadnight Taylor?
The Roadnight Taylor team has a connection success rate some five times greater than the market as a whole — on large-scale demand-led projects (housing, commercial and industrial) and energy schemes from solar, wind, battery storage, nuclear, hydrogen and EV charging and from 11,000 to 400,000 volts.
Their Connectologists® are respected and revered within the connections community for their niche expertise, insight, influence, and thought-leadership – and for the edge they give their clients relative to their clients' peers — through acquiring viable distribution and transmission network connections faster, at lower risk, and for less cost.