Grid Intelligence
All editions of Grid Intelligence, Wattlas' independent research format on grid capacity, congestion and grid expansion.
Wattlas Issue #006 maps why Limburg is congested on the transmission layer for both off-take and feed-in, why the Chemelot cluster drives the demand, how the Maasbracht-Einighausen 380 kV upgrade (formerly Maasbracht-Graetheide, commissioning indicatively 2031 to 2034) is the first real relief, and why the province still faces years of delay despite four accelerated projects.
Wattlas Issue #008 covers Groningen and Drenthe together, the mirror image of the congested south: the transmission grid has off-take room while feed-in is the binding constraint, driven by solar and wind, with feed-in waiting lists of about 71 MW at Emmen and 83 MW at Delfzijl, and Eemshaven as the industrial exception with room in both directions.
Wattlas Issue #007 maps why Overijssel is transmission-congested for both off-take and feed-in across Twente and the Zwolle corridor, why the new Hengelo Oele transformers are the only near-term relief, and why the Enschede subnetwork and Zwolle-West have no room until 2035.
Wattlas Issue #005: a national dossier piece on the Dutch congestion-reliever priority route. The rules are published, the payoff is not measured, the ministry says so in its own words, and the incentive is already bending behaviour nobody planned for.
Wattlas Issue #004: three primary findings from TenneT, Stedin, Liander and Westland Infra show why a single capacity headline can mislead a Zuid-Holland site screening in three different ways at once, by operator and direction near Naaldwijk, by grid layer in the Rotterdam harbour, and by a hidden dependency on gas plants in the north.
Wattlas Issue #003 tracks the new connection pause in Utrecht city and its surrounding area, why the province sits inside the FGU region the cabinet flags as highest urgency, and where the feed-in shortage is heading next.
Wattlas Issue #002 tracks how Brabant's grid queue rules changed from 1 July 2026, why feed-in and off-take now diverge, and how congestion-easing assets can qualify differently.
Three signals that change the interpretation of the Brabant congestion. Read together, they show where companies are choosing the wrong location today, and where headroom appears first.