Live network coverage

Where Headroom can screen today.

Headroom screens sites against each Distribution Network Operator's published capacity and constraint data. Coverage rolls out DNO by DNO, this is exactly where we stand right now.

6 GB DNO groups · 14 licence areas · live capacity & constraint data
Coverage board

DNO coverage status

Great Britain's networks are run by six DNO groups across fourteen licence areas. Here is what Headroom screens against today.

UK Power Networks

Eastern · London · South Eastern
Live
Full site screening against UKPN capacity & constraint data. PURSUE / CAUTION / AVOID verdicts available now.

National Grid Electricity Distribution

East & West Midlands · South West · South Wales
Staged
Data ingest in progress. Postcode screening returns a coverage notice until the region is switched live.

SSEN

Scottish Hydro · Southern
Staged
Data ingest in progress. Screening returns a coverage notice until switched live.

SP Energy Networks

SP Distribution (Scotland) · SP Manweb (Merseyside & N Wales)
Staged
Data ingest in progress. Screening returns a coverage notice until switched live.

Northern Powergrid

Yorkshire · North East
Planned
On the roadmap. Priority set by installer demand, tell us your patch.

Electricity North West

North West England
Planned
On the roadmap. Priority set by installer demand, tell us your patch.
Why phased? Every DNO publishes capacity and constraint data in a different format. We ingest, validate and calibrate one network at a time so a verdict means the same thing everywhere, rather than screening against stale or incomparable data.
The constraint picture

Why the network status matters

Grid headroom is the single biggest variable in whether a solar or battery job completes. It is also the one installers can least see before they quote.

~50%
come back export-restricted
domestic market, 136 applications
6
DNO groups across GB
14 licence areas total
Live
capacity & constraint data
calibrated per network

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UK Power Networks is live now. Type a postcode and get a verdict before you quote.

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