Know where you can connect to the grid, before you apply.
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Ask in plain words. Watch the agent check the grid.
Find all car parks within a 3 min drive of junction 9 on the M14, avoid any with flood risk, identify the largest 5, and assess these for grid.Find all car parks within a 3 min drive of junction 9 on the M14, avoid any with flood risk, identify the largest 5, and assess these for grid.
The usual way
Today, you find out last.
Sites are chosen first and checked against the grid later. The check is an application to the network operator (the DNO), and the answer takes months.
- Secure the siteAgree terms with the landowner, and start the legal work.
- Apply on a guessAsk the DNO for a budget estimate, with little idea from the published maps whether the site will get the capacity it needs.
- WaitWeeks for a budget estimate, months for a grid offer, site by site.
- Hear no, after the legal work is done
Or a cost that ends the project, once the fees are spent.
From site to offer
Site and grid feasibility, as one workflow.
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Identify sites
Describe what you need in plain words: land parcels of a given size near a town, a postcode or a substation, or car parks, retail parks and industrial land. Or upload a spreadsheet of the sites you already have, up to 500 at a time.
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Check the grid at every site
Give the capacity you want as a range, such as 500 kVA and up. Every site gets the points of connection that can carry it, each a specific circuit or substation, with its cable route and the capacity published there. The sites come back ranked, closest to a connection first.
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Compare the options at a site
Every option at one site, routed and measured. The ones most likely to give you the capacity you want come first, each with what it rests on: the capacity the network publishes there and the cable it needs.
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One record of every site
Each site's facts, its options, the one you chose and where its connection stands, in one place. Your team and the agent work from the same record.
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Coordinate the team
A lead on every site, tasks handed between colleagues, and comments and replies on the site itself.
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Take the next step with the network
The agent says what to ask the network for next: a budget estimate, a pre-application meeting or an application. It says how this network wants it made and gathers what it needs. You send it.
The stack
One system for getting connected.
The agent, and the data, grid rules, company context and skills it draws on, brought together layer by layer.
- Data
More than 60 published datasets from over 30 publishers, joined into one map, each credited. More than 30 are grid datasets, from all six distribution network operators, the three transmission owners and NESO.
Substations and circuits from all six operators
Published headroom from four operators
Flood, protected land and farmland grade
Traffic, rapid charging use and drive times
- Grid rules
Each DNO's process and the industry codes, held as data: where a request goes, what it costs and how long it takes, each rule with its source and date.
Where each request goes, by size
Fees and clocks, operator by operator
Connections reform: gates and windows
Over 1,800 rules, each sourced and dated
- Company context
Your sites and everything on them: facts, options and routes, and where each connection stands, held in one record the agent reads and only your company can see.
Every site, and how far its connection has got
The facts each answer rests on
Options, routes and your choice
- Skills
- Machine-learning cable routing over the real ground
- Optimised point of connection identification, every voltage within 25 km
- Site identification engine: by type, area and drive time
- A grid verdict for every site, from one site to a whole spreadsheet
- Advice on the connection route, for every distribution and transmission network
Machine-learning cable routing
Optimised point of connection identification
Site identification engine
- Agent
Plans the work and does the legwork on frontier language models, reached through one place so a newer one drops in. Signing, paying and accepting stay with you.
Does the legwork unasked
Sources every operator fact
One recommendation, not a menu
- Workspace
The conversation, the map, your portfolio and a page for every site with its facts, options, cable route, stage and team. Here you see what the agent did and what each answer rests on.
Ask in plain words
All the layers on one map
Each site's facts, options, route, stage and team
Your portfolio, site by site
The Yottar operating system for grid connections
Customers
What grid teams say about Yottar
Yottar transformed our site selection process. It allowed us to quickly identify locations with real potential and avoid wasting time on sites that would never get a viable grid connection.
Hamza LatifGrid Connections Manager, Tesla
Across several recent pre-application calls, we’ve found the information Yottar provided to be accurate and reliable. It’s definitely helping us coordinate more effectively than we did before.
Siam Hasan KhanGrid Connection Manager, Alerion UK
For an estate as large and complex as ours, grid capacity is one of the biggest bottlenecks to our decarbonisation plans. The platform that Yottar provides is essential to us achieving net zero.
Nick Macdonald SmithNet Zero Carbon Lead, NHS Property Services
