MAP Energy
Grid Strategy
Portfolio-level connection strategy — where to hold capacity, where to trade it, and how to phase a pipeline through a reformed queue.
The capability
For a portfolio, the grid is not a series of applications. It is a set of positions — capacity held, dates contracted, optionality banked — that must be managed as deliberately as the land.
MAP advises developers and investors on connection strategy across whole pipelines. The questions sit above any single project: which positions justify their securities under a reformed, readiness-tested queue; where first-ready-first-connected changes the order in which schemes should be advanced; where capacity should be consolidated, phased or surrendered; and how distribution and transmission routes compare for the load or generation in question.
Strategy earns its keep at moments of change — connection reform, a shift in technology mix, an acquisition that doubles the pipeline. Our consultants model the portfolio's connection position, test it against scenarios, and give boards a defensible basis for the calls that cannot be reversed.
How MAP delivers it
Grid strategy work operates at portfolio level, above transactional connection support.
Portfolio position review
A single honest view of every connection held across the pipeline — capacity, dates, milestones, securities and the strength of each queue position.
Phasing and prioritisation
Sequencing of the pipeline so readiness evidence, capital and management attention concentrate on the projects the queue will now reward.
Capacity optionality
Advice on holding, trading, splitting or surrendering capacity, weighing option value against the carrying cost of securities and obligations.
Regulatory and reform response
Interpretation of connection reform and network policy as it applies to the portfolio, translated into decisions rather than commentary.
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