Customers in some eastern municipalities in the Netherlands are to be placed on a waiting list for connections to the high-voltage grid due to insufficient capacity, Dutch grid manager Liander has confirmed.

Liander operates across the provinces of Gelderland and North Holland, as well as large parts of the provinces of Flevoland, Friesland and South Holland, which are spread across the western, northern and eastern regions of the Netherlands.

An update published at the end of October on grid capacity for customers with large-scale consumption connections, of more than 3 x 80 amperes, listed 14 new bottlenecks on Liander’s network where maximum connection has been reached.

Of this total, 11 of the bottlenecks relate exclusively to the consumption, or purchase, of electricity, two of the bottlenecks concern the feed-in of electricity and one concerns both. The most impacted region is Friesland, with five bottlenecks. Liander identified four each in Gelderland and North Holland and one Flevoland.

In an additional update published on Monday (November 2), Liander said there is currently insufficient capacity on the high-voltage grid to connect new customers on the waiting list beginning Jan. 1, 2027, without putting too much pressure on the reliability of the grid.

The announcement impacts sixteen municipalities all located within the eastern province of Gelderland, bordering Germany.

In these areas, customers with a new application for a grid connection will be placed on a waiting list until at least Jul. 1, 2027. The only exception is any housing projects registered before Jul. 1, 2026, which Liander says can be connected provided there is sufficient capacity on the local electricity grid.

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