Nordic TSOs Grid Connection Requests Statement (2026)

Joint Nordic TSO statement, Strong growth in grid connection requests challenges the power system (2026-06-23) — a coordinated communiqué from Fingrid, Energinet, Statnett and Svenska kraftnät on the surge in grid-connection requests and their shared response.

Key claims

• Demand far exceeds capacity. Across all Nordic countries, connection requests now significantly exceed both existing and planned short-to-medium-term grid capacity — mirroring the rest of Europe (energy transition + new industrial demand).
• Grid investment cannot solve it alone. Despite scaled-up investment, requested volumes exceed existing and planned capacity; making full use of the grid increasingly depends on efficient location of consumption/production and on increased flexibility to use existing capacity and enable higher connection volumes.
• A few very large projects dominate requested capacity, so their realization (or not) decisively shapes system development and the room for other requests.
• “First come, first served” has “in many cases already shifted” toward maturity-based assessments (not Nordic-wide, per the raw); further adjustment toward “more dynamic and flexible access models” is called for.
• Country measures:
  • Denmark (Energinet) — maturity requirements, payments in early project phases, queue/capacity-allocation adjustments. Requested capacity is now ~8× today’s total peak load; some projects larger than the whole Copenhagen area. Calls for a political prioritization “compass” (possibly new regulation). (Thomas Egebo)
  • Finland (Fingrid) — broader toolbox: new connection-process principles, updated general connection terms, flexible connection agreements, and power-based tariffs. Explicitly: making FCAs a permanent tool would significantly enhance the ability to connect customers. (Asta Sihvonen-Punkka)
  • Norway (Statnett) — plans to implement strengthened maturity requirements for large consumption; ordinary/smaller projects prioritized; public connection-request list; the Stortinget amended the Energy Act to enable prioritization of connections for national-security interests. (Elisabeth Vike Vardheim)
  • Sweden (Svk) — structured stepwise connection process with maturity-based queue management; plans to launch a capacity-zones pilot in the coming year as a complement, to steer location/connection solutions toward available capacity. (Thomas Pålsson)
• Shared responsibility: addressing this needs consumption and generation developed in conjunction, plus close cooperation with regulators/policymakers.

Relevance to wiki

• DSO Connection Queue Reform — The Swedish Policy Response — Nordic peer comparison (DK 8× peak load, FI permanent-FCA call, NO Energy Act prioritization, the maturity shift (“in many cases”)).
• Anvisningssystem / Svenska kraftnät — confirms the capacity-zones pilot in the coming year (the raw says only “in the coming year”; “H1 2027” was an unsourced inference).
• Flexible Connection Agreements — Fingrid’s call to make FCAs permanent (cf. Sweden’s still-open permanent-FCA question).
• Grid Capacity Utilization · Congestion Management · Bidding Areas (locational signals).