Read our insights into how energy developers should approach development in a world where NESO's Gate 2 favours projects that can demonstrate credible progress through planning and necessitates construction and energisation within defined timescales.

This paper draws directly on Third Revolution's experience working alongside developers as planners, economists and project managers navigating the planning and Gate 2 processes. It is intended as a practical guide: identifying common risks, explaining why projects stall, and setting out the steps that materially improve prospects of consent, delivery and sale.

It concludes that projects that do not have a route through planning risk delay, escalating costs, or ultimately the loss of their grid connection. Planning strategy is now inseparable from grid strategy.

Download the paper here: Energy Planning in the Gate 2 Connections World – Managing Planning Risk, Cost and Programme