Liander puts new customers in 16 Gelderland towns on a grid waiting list to July 2027
Serguey Asael Shinder1 min readDutch grid operator Liander has confirmed that customers in parts of the eastern Netherlands will be put on a waiting list for high-voltage grid connections, pv magazine reported on 4 November.
In an update on 2 November, Liander said there is not enough capacity on the high-voltage grid to connect new customers on the waiting list from 1 January 2027 without putting too much pressure on grid reliability. The decision affects sixteen municipalities in the province of Gelderland, on the German border. New connection applications there go onto a waiting list until at least 1 July 2027; housing projects registered before 1 July 2026 are the only exception and can be connected if the local grid has room. Liander will assess with transmission operator TenneT in the spring how much capacity will be available from July 2027. In other parts of Gelderland and in Flevopolder, TenneT's grid has room to connect at least some waiting customers from January, allocated under the national prioritisation framework.
An earlier update at the end of October, covering large consumption connections above 3 x 80 amperes, listed 14 new bottlenecks where maximum connection has been reached: 11 for consumption only, two for feed-in and one for both. Friesland has five, Gelderland and North Holland four each and Flevoland one.
The Netherlands has applied new rules for allocating scarce capacity since July, putting grid-safety measures and congestion-reducing parties first, followed by public infrastructure such as hospitals, emergency services, housing and water. Liander's CTO Joris de Groot said the operator has realised a lot of flexible capacity, but not yet enough.
What it means
Most of the new bottlenecks are on the demand side, not on solar feed-in. In the Netherlands the queue now shapes where new load can go, not only where generators can connect.