UK regulator says the national grid operator failed to deliver its plan to speed up connection queues
The AI stack on 2 September 2026. 4 moves, 4 with a primary source.
UK regulator says the national grid operator failed to deliver its plan to speed up connection queues
· L1 Power and land · Performance objective not delivered · Confirmed
Ofgem, the regulator for Great Britain's electricity system, published its own assessment of NESO, the company that runs the national grid, and found that NESO did not deliver its main promise to speed up how quickly new users, including data centres, can connect to the grid. Ofgem's report says NESO made some structural changes but did not finish carrying them out, citing missed deadlines and inconsistent handling of applications. Long queues to connect to the grid are one of the biggest brakes on how fast new AI data centres can be built in any country. For anyone in Great Britain waiting on a new grid connection, whether for a data centre, a factory, or a home solar and battery system, this is the regulator's own account of why that wait probably is not getting shorter yet.
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