🇬🇧 The United Kingdom: Gate-Two, AR7 and the Push to Clean Power 2030 🇬🇧

Synopsis

The two-gate grid connection reform has fundamentally changed development timelines and risk profiles, AR7 is reshaping the competitive landscape for contracted revenues, and subsidy-free solar is now the norm for projects outside the CfD framework.

• How the two-gate grid queue process is reshaping project timelines, connection risk and development strategy
• AR7: what the latest CfD allocation round means for solar and storage pipelines, strike prices and bankability
• Co-location with BESS in the UK: what Capacity Market, balancing mechanism and ancillary service revenues are actually delivering
• Planning reform, community acceptance and the route to consent for large-scale projects in a constrained land market