The sensible thing for me to do is wait for the facts. That's never stopped me ranting before... Pre-speech briefings show a £4bn state body inside a £70bn grid build. It speeds connections only if self-build rights arrive. Ports, SMR sponsors, data-centre developers and BESS investors: read on. The 30-second version •Ports: positive, medium. Self-build rights could let ports fund their own connections. •SMR: neutral, medium. Wylfa predates GB Grid; the risk is a shared GB En

Converting the Capacity Market Reform into Data Centre Reform The UK Capacity Market has been running since 2014. It has verified emissions declarations, audited technical claims, and a decade of enforcement precedent behind it. It has stiff penalties for underperformance, because the lights might go out in the middle of winter. Ofgem's new data centre connection reform - Curate - asks developers to self-certify with a director's letter and nothing else. That gap should worry

Now that we have all returned from the summer holiday, 16 September is not far away. For most people, it is simply the closing date for an Ofgem consultation. For UK data-centre developers, investors and landowners, it may mark a more consequential shift: a grid connection can no longer be treated as a low-cost option on future capacity. Ofgem is consulting on proposals designed to remove speculative data-centre projects from the demand-connections queue. The proposal include