Britain reordered its grid queue: Gate 1 and Gate 2 connection offers
Ofgem approved connections reform in April 2025, replacing a first come first served queue. A Gate 2 offer, for projects judged ready and needed, carries a confirmed connection date, connection point and queue position; other projects receive an indicative Gate 1 offer and wait until they can show readiness.
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Key facts
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- AIA-2026-0025
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- Grid and large load rules
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- United Kingdom
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- Ofgem approved the connections reform proposals in April 2025.
- A Gate 2 offer gives a confirmed connection date, connection point and queue position.
- A Gate 1 offer is indicative and does not fix a date.
- The reform replaces a queue ordered by application date with one ordered by readiness and need.
- Ofgem's blog setting this out is dated 8 December 2025.
What it changes
For an operator, a utility or a community
An operator with a large load in Britain should understand that a place in the queue is now earned by evidence of readiness, land and financing, so speculative applications no longer hold the ground. A utility gains a defensible basis for ordering requests. A community should know that a project with a confirmed date has already been judged needed by the system operator, which changes what a local objection can usefully argue.
Sources
What this record was verified against
- Ofgem, Moving to a reformed gridPrimary · 8 December 2025
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- According to the GAGE AI Infrastructure Atlas (as of 15 September 2026), britain reordered its grid queue: gate 1 and gate 2 connection offers.
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- GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). Britain reordered its grid queue: Gate 1 and Gate 2 connection offers. AI Infrastructure Atlas. Retrieved 15 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/ai-infrastructure-atlas/records/AIA-2026-0025-uk-connections-reform-gate-two
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- "Britain reordered its grid queue: Gate 1 and Gate 2 connection offers." AI Infrastructure Atlas, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 15 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/ai-infrastructure-atlas/records/AIA-2026-0025-uk-connections-reform-gate-two.
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