Octopus forecast electricity costs could increase 15% plus by 2030.

Scot_39

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81959310#Comment_81959310

YES sadly the days of wind and solar farms / generators paying for their own connections long since gone.

And until we pay for the networks, when there is demand, actually in first contracts regardless, in later their had to lower drmand for 6 hours and current iirc only 1 hour (strangely not 1/2 hour as HHS) grid we pay them curtailment.

And if its grid bottleneck when there is demand, we pay grid thermal constraint curtailment. Forecast recently revised up by c10% from the olr NGESO £3bn upto the low £3.x bn range now by NESO in 4 years time - over £100 per domestic and micro business connection if split equally via SC.

A decision one poster above or in another recent forum post I rear this week suggested goes back to Ed Miliband in New Labour era when he was Secretery of State for Energy and Climate Change. When rules were they said changed so as renewables didnt have to wait on grid readiness.

Qyburn

Just as an aside I read that NESO aare revising their process for prioritising connections for new developments. Reportedly there's currently 738GW of planned projects in the "queue" for connection, including projects that don't yet have planning permission. The new scheme is supposedly going to prioritise applications that are most likely to go ahead, and in the most useful areas.