• Empowering customers to make informed choices relating to their connection requirements

• Apply novel commercial and technical approaches that will create the foundation for future connection options

• Inform the development of business processes required to facilitate a greater level of renewable generation

• Build upon the learning developed from previous and existing Low Carbon Network Funded projects to date via collaboration with other DNO partners.

The ARC solution will demonstrate this by:

• Providing stakeholders with a richer source of information, which will inform developers on the potential for traditional or smart connections

• Facilitating the role communities can play in balancing community generation with local demand

• Addressing the commercial and technical issues associated with exporting Grid Supply Points (GSPs) and providing evidence to inform the debate on investment strategies of smart solutions, as identified by Workstream 3 of the Smart Grid Forum.

The project has strong support from project partners and other stakeholders as well as internal buy-in. ARC will run for four years but is designed to create an enduring process and learning for future connections.

The key objectives of this project are to:

• Improve access to connect generation to the network

• Accelerate the time to connect generation

• Enable connections to be facilitated around constraints

• Create an enduring process and learning that can be rolled out across the UK.