Grid Application

National Grid Ventures’ Nautilus project documentation indicates that NGV applied to National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) for a grid connection point in the Leiston / Sizewell area in East Suffolk during the early development phase. The 2021 National Grid Nautilus project update and associated written responses to the East Anglia One North and Two examinations describe Nautilus as already holding a connection agreement with ESO by 2020–2021. This implies the underlying grid connection application was made and processed several years earlier, during the 2010s. Given the CEF 2019 PCI action for Nautilus early-stage development and the status of the connection agreement by 2020, the grid application can be reasonably dated to around 2019.