Primary objectives

• Meet regulatory deadlines and price-control milestones
• Keep substation and line projects on time and on budget
• Give the regulator and board confidence in your delivery
• Build a reliable pipeline of contractors, EPCs and suppliers

Key challenges

• Longer transformer lead times
• Switchgear and other critical kit are now multi-year buys
• Aligning EPCs, OEMs and engineering around one tight schedule
• No clear view of true manufacturing capacity when you commit

Why be in the room

One of the only forums built around delivery execution, the Grid Delivery Summit lets you press manufacturers and EPCs on real lead times, alongside peers facing the same pressures across Europe.

Primary objectives

• Clear the connections backlog while keeping the system secure
• Reinforce the network fast enough for electrification, data centres and renewables
• Meet Europe's new regulatory milestones and commitment-fee rules Keep the queue fair and transparent under scrutiny

Key challenges

• Demand applications are up, mostly data centres and electrification
• Reinforcements stuck behind the same multi-year transformer and switchgear lead times
• Weighing developer pressure against real capacity limits
• Pressure to speed up connections without losing rigour

Why be in the room

The Grid Delivery Summit is a credible place to press manufacturers on lead times and benchmark against European peers under the same queue pressure.

Primary objectives

• Hit contracted delivery milestones despite equipment shortages
• Protect margin on fixed-price contracts against inflating lead times and costs
• Maintain strong OEM relationships to secure priority allocation when capacity is scarce
• Win repeat framework business from utility, TSO and DSO clients

Key challenges

• Caught between client deadlines and OEM lead times nearing five years for large transformers
• Can't go outside client-approved vendors, even when they're capacity-constrained
• Owning the schedule risk even when the cause is upstream s
• Pressure to speed up connections without losing rigour

Why be in the room

Secure priority allocation from OEMs and hear pipeline ahead of tender rather than chasing suppliers one by one.

Primary objectives

• Secure a bankable grid connection date
• Avoid commitment-fee exposure on delayed projects
• Weigh on-site generation, storage and private wire as alternatives
• De-risk timelines against lead times that now rival construction

Key challenges

• Data centre applications are increasing, with new fees and milestones
• Transformer and equipment lead times constrain buildout
• Managing a relationship with grid operators blamed on data centre congestion
• Balancing sustainability goals against the scale of power needed

Why be in the room

Meet the TSOs and DSOs controlling the timeline and the suppliers behind on-site alternatives, in a summit that treats data centres as part of the solution.