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Hybrid Connections Proposal: Impact on Priority Dispatch

The CRU is consulting until 14 April 2025 on the Sharing of Maximum Export Capacity behind a Single Connection Point. The proposal is not intended to facilitate energy sharing in the sense of allowing generation that has been constrained or curtailed down to be used to charge co-located storage. It is also significant that the CRU considers that renewable generators with priority dispatch seeking to convert their site to a co-located hybrid project and/or avail of the sharing of MEC would likely lose their priority dispatch status.

We look at the hybrid connection proposal, including the view on priority dispatch, in our briefing: Potential Impact of Hybrid Connection Proposal on Priority Dispatch.