Distribution network operator

That was probably the last time we spoke.

It's now grown to seven, and they are also accredited by specific DNOs as well around training up on the network that they are gonna be working on.

So we have got those spread all over the country, from Neath to Borehamwood to Sheffield and beyond.

The key thing there, though, is for us, we've actually set up the OCU Academy, is as we call it.

I think that's widely accepted, even though still the data on that is very opaque.

On top of that, I guess your customers, so a lot of the utility companies and grid owners in the UK, is it fair to say their procurement processes are still quite traditional and a little bit autocratic? Would that be right?

Times are changing in that regard as well in terms of how the DNOs and TNOs are looking at, uh, the work that needs to be done.

This is just a transmission network operator and distribution network operator.

And I know this power is still going to go through the network and there might be, you know, might be problems with that amount of energy going through that part of the network to reach the hospital.

But let's just imagine there isn't for a minute where, you know, the DNO go, you know what guys, we're really struggling for energy for that hospital or for that factory or whatever, because we are at a failure further in another place in the country that usually supplies us.

Let's pay the three neighbouring export communities a good level of power for 48 hours to actually export power to the grid to support that local network and that local bit of critical infrastructure so that we don't have a blackout in that area.

And therefore, it might be the case that actually that community systems do nothing but then export back to the grid.

Yeah.

And start exploring it, and it'll build demand, and before we know it, all of the, the houses around the UK will start having these systems installed upon them and, you know, the DNOs are gonna have an issue with that, I'm sure.

They're already talking about dropping the voltage on the DNO network pro- probably to kind of preempt what's coming when that mass adoption hits.

Mm.

So this is the great thing.

Other than just notifying your local district network operator, your DNO, your electricity network operator, through a very simple online system, there shouldn't be any permissions you need.

Now, obviously, every home is different.

Every household is different.

And not informing your network operator.

So you need to let the distribution network operator, DNO, know within 28 days of connecting panels.

This is the company that owns, um, local energy infrastructure such as cables, transformers, and substations, and you can find out who your DNO is f- uh, via the Energy Networks Association website.

All of that, you mix it into the big pot and it makes me go, "That sounds like hard work." Um, I, and also, they're gonna come on sale at the end of August, just when we've had the couple of sunniest months known to man, and it's gonna get all gray and rubbish probably i- for the next eight months.

Yeah, I mean, that's part of the business on a daily basis.

It's not only about the length you need to wait until you get the official offer from the DNO.

It's also the issue that you need to drop projects if you get not the Euclid Grid.

I mean, there are solutions, definitely.

optimize the grid with the load management.

But currently we are working on a project which is currently calculated with six megawatts of grid connection.

So, and I mean, we have not received the official information from the DNO, but we are already preparing at the same time also like plan B and maybe also C covering BAS and also load management.

Yeah.