GB grid connection

G99 connection applications: screen the grid facts before you file

A G99 application to a UK distribution network operator is a promise about grid facts: the capacity you ask for, the point you connect at, the reinforcement you assume. When those facts are wrong, the application comes back with questions, the timeline slips and the money already spent on the site is at risk. Noda runs the first pass on those facts before you commit to filing.

Where applications go wrong

Most weak G99 applications fail before the form is ever opened. The site cannot host the assumed capacity. The local network is more constrained than the developer believed. The operator documents in the data room contradict each other. Nobody noticed until the DNO did. Each of these is discoverable early, from documents and signals that already exist — if someone reads them before the application fee is paid and the clock starts.

What Noda does before you apply

Upload the site location and whatever documents you have. Noda reads them, cross-checks the sources and returns a structured red-flag report in up to two hours: grid connection signals, capacity and curtailment context, consistency problems, and the assumptions most likely to be wrong. Every finding carries a confidence level, and the report says plainly where the underlying data was thin. You get the same review for every site, in any country — a GB application is one case of that.

What Noda does not do

Noda does not fill in or submit the G99 form, does not talk to the DNO for you and does not replace your engineer. The process requirements, timelines and charges for ENA Engineering Recommendation G99 are set by the Energy Networks Association and your distribution network operator; their guidance is authoritative on those points. Noda is the first pass that tells your team whether the site is worth taking into that process at all.

Built for the decision before the decision

Developers and IPPs use it on their own pipeline before optioning land. Investors use it on sites they are being offered. Advisors and EPCs use it as the first pass their engineers then review and sign. One structured report, up to two hours, any country.

Questions developers ask

Does Noda submit the G99 application for me?

No. Noda produces a preliminary grid risk report before you commit to an application. You or your consultant prepare and file the G99 submission; Noda makes sure you know what the grid data supports before you spend that effort.

Does Noda replace our grid engineer or consultant?

No. It is the first pass, not the sign-off. Your engineers review the report, check it against their own judgement and put their name on the application.

What does Noda check before a G99 application?

Grid connection signals around the site, the operator documents you already hold, capacity and curtailment context, and consistency problems across your project documents. The report flags red flags with confidence levels and marks where data is thin.

Which distribution network operators does it cover?

Noda screens sites in any country. For GB sites it works from the DNO-published material relevant to the site; data depth varies by market and every report states where coverage was thin.