Independent advisory in every phase
You have a site, a project or a mandate for a region. You want to build, buy or sell something that needs a grid connection, planning consent and long-lead equipment. It might be a data centre, a battery storage facility, a plant, a depot or a campus. We advise you in whatever phase your project has reached. We are independent: we sell neither equipment nor grid capacity. If we have an interest of our own in a site, we disclose it up front.
Every large project faces the same question, whatever is to be built on the land. Since 1 April 2026, the transmission system operators have allocated grid capacity by project maturity. On the distribution grid, four percent of the capacity requested for battery storage in 2025 received a connection commitment. A large power transformer takes 128 weeks to deliver on average. If you know this before you buy land, you buy differently. If you find out afterwards, you wait.
Do you need grid capacity, as a data-centre operator, a data-centre user, an industrial company or a storage operator? Then your question is this: can I get this many megawatts at this site by this date, and what has to be in place first? The assessment in the next section answers exactly that. It also includes a connection design the grid operator can accept. The load that must run at all times gets a firm connection. Capacity above that can be curtailed, where the grid operator offers a flexible connection agreement under section 17(2b) of the Energy Industry Act (EnWG).
Will your site get a grid connection?
A first conversation often leads to a written assessment in three parts. It answers the question on which most projects stall.
The bottleneck
We establish which grid your site would connect to, who operates it and which queue that puts you in. That includes what is published about the queue and what is not. Where no figures are published, we say so. A conversation with the grid operator closes the gap, and we either prepare it for you or hold it ourselves.
The planning position
We check whether your project counts as a privileged use under planning law or needs a local development plan, and which assessments lie ahead. We show how local politicians have decided so far. Our map records approvals and refusals. A council vote can go either way, and we tell you beforehand where it stands.
The timeline
We set out what to secure and order, and in which sequence. The aim is to have the grid connection, the planning consent and the equipment ready on the same day. Without this planning, three years can separate them. Regulatory cut-off dates add to this: for battery storage, for example, 1 January 2027, when the Federal Network Agency plans to publish its grid-fee determination.
When you can bring us in
A site passes through six phases. In each one it is a different asset with a different pool of buyers. We advise in every phase, and always for the side that engages us.
| Area of work | What we advise on | For whom |
|---|---|---|
| Origination and site control | Site search and screening, grid analysis, talks with landowners and grid operators, option or exclusivity agreement | Landowners, municipalities, developers |
| Planning consent | Privileged use or development plan, procedural strategy, coordination with the municipality, waste-heat and water concept | Developers, facility operators, municipalities |
| Grid connection and equipment | Connection application under the maturity procedure, procurement strategy for transformers and switchgear, grid construction cost contribution | Developers, industry, storage operators |
| Procurement and construction | Selecting and managing engineers and contractors, tender documents, owner's representation | Project owners, occupiers |
| Tenant and financing | Lease and lease term, credit review, capital structure by phase, investor requirements | Developers, owners, investors |
| Exit | Choice of phase for the sale, pool of buyers, valuation | Owners, developers, heirs |
We say which side we are on
We advise clients and develop sites for our own account, sometimes on the same project. Before we write an assessment, we tell you whether we have an interest of our own in your site. If that changes later, you hear it from us before we act.
We publish our evidence under Analysis, with its source and evidence grade. The assessment for your project builds on that evidence and goes further. It sets out what we conclude from it for your site.
Four details
We need the location, as an address or a land parcel. We need the capacity you require in megawatts, and a rough estimate is fine. We need the intended use and the current status. The status covers whether a connection request, an application or talks with the municipality are already under way. That is all we need, and we gather everything else ourselves.
What we do not do: we do not sell grid capacity, and we do not guarantee a grid connection. We answer every enquiry, even when we are not the right people for it.