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Connection Request
Automate grid impact assessment and grid integration processes at the low and medium voltage level
Fast evaluation and processing of connection requests including reservation management
Distribution system operators are currently experiencing a rapidly increasing number of customer inquiries for the connection of PVs, heat pumps and e-charging stations. Since it puts an increasing strain on our grids, these inquiries need to be examined more thoroughly, which often leads to a huge workload because many processes still have to be carried out manually today.
With the Connection Request app, you can digitize and automate the entire process from data transfer to the technical evaluation and documentation of new requests for grid integration. This allows to significantly reduce time for processing and assessment of grid connection applications – all without the need for additional personnel.
What you can use Connection Request for:
The app allows for a fully or partially automated technical evaluation of new network connection applications for both generators and consumers in low and medium voltage. This enables you to reduce the processing time per request to just a few minutes and make the planning work for new connections more efficient.
Easy input of all important details
Evaluating new connection requests is intuitive and quick. Select the correct flow direction or connection phase via a dropdown menu, optionally enter installed active power or contractual active power – the app offers a lot of flexibility for as accurate and fast a grid compatibility check as possible. Moreover, you can expand existing connections with newly requested grid participants.
Automatic technical evaluation
The app automatically searches for and calculates the most suitable grid connection point within seconds. Possible grid connection variants such as shortest geographical distance or shortest electrical distance are automatically identified and directly technically evaluated. Any potential limit violations are immediately marked in the app.
Automated calculation of best routing options
When adjusting the identified grid connection variants, you can use the automated routing function. You can specify and import your own data for GO-routing or use OpenStreetMap data, which is already included for automatic calculation.
Reservation management and documentation
The capacity of approved but not yet connected systems is automatically reserved in the grid model and taken into account in calculations for future requests. Moreover, all requests can be sorted and filtered by various criteria such as region, whether it’s binding or non-binding, or capacity if needed, enabling targeted processing and analysis.
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3 reasons why you will love the Connection Request app
Faster processing of inquiries
Our customers report that on average about 50-60% of all grid connection requests are assessed with a positive result in under 5 minutes. This also leads to significantly higher customer satisfaction.
Lower personnel workload
The reduction in processing time per request and the automation of the entire process along the grid connection planning allow for the effective handling of the rapidly growing number of new requests without additional staff.
More transparent grid planning
The app enables the early identification of potential bottlenecks that may occur due to new grid integrations. This allows grid planners to derive necessary grid planning measures in a timely manner.
Mona KellerHead of Asset Management & Strategic Planning at FairNetz
In some cases, it would not have been possible to anticipate the high load without the IGP. The IGP provides calculation results which already take existing as well as approved but not yet installed generators into account. That is why we were able to visualize a rapid concentration of assets set to be put into operation and based on this information, we can already initiate grid expansion measures at an early stage.
Rainer LoeberHead of Electricity Department at Travenetz
Like all grid operators, we are facing a significant increase in grid connection requests. With the IGP, we consider ourselves optimally prepared for this challenge and other aspects of the energy transition. In addition to the technical grid connection assessment, which has been smoothly integrated into the registration process at TraveNetz, we can, for example, use future grid scenario analyses created with the ‘Grid Study’ application as an important aid in investment decisions for grid expansion.
Michal Holan Senior Project Manager at EG.D
In cooperation with envelio, we managed to deploy two digital solutions in our IT landscape – Online Connection Check and Connection Request.
Online Connection Check has been used by more than 80,000 of our customers since the beginning of the year, and this confirms the great interest in connecting renewable sources to our distribution system. This is also why we are happy to offer our customers an online, intuitive tool.
Connection Request, on the other hand, is used for faster processing of customer requests, and here we found that the new process is twice as fast as our previous system thanks to Connection Request.
Common questions we hear about our tool for faster processing of grid connection requests
You can easily integrate mainstream connection application portals to automatically forward requests to the Connection Request app. You will find here an overview of all portals with which we already have a standard integration.
Moreover, you can have the data records on approved installations automatically transferred to other systems, for example, for further processing in EDM or NIS.
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