About Vattenfall IDNO
Vattenfall IDNO provides electrical grid connections for large, commercial projects. We offer an alternative to working with your local DNO and pay business owners and developers an Asset Adoption Value.
As an Ofgem regulated Independent Distribution Network Operator (IDNO) we are licenced to work anywhere in England, Scotland and Wales. We work with developers and Independent Connection Providers (see What is an ICP?) to design safe, reliable electrical networks and connect business to the UK grid.
Once these local networks are built, we own and operate the electrical infrastructure which takes the electricity from the national transmission or distribution network to the businesses which consume the power. We also connect electricity generators to the grid, for example, solar or wind farms.
As a regulated IDNO we own the local electrical networks we adopt and are responsible for managing and operating them for the long term to ensure safe and reliable supplies for our customers.
Learn more about definition of IDNOs and the differences with Distribution Network Operators.
Vattenfall Group
Vattenfall IDNO is owned by the Swedish company Vattenfall AB, one of Europe’s biggest retailers of electricity and heat and one of the largest producers of electricity. Vattenfall has been in business for more than 100 years and has a long history. Our goal is to enable fossil-free living within one generation.
Experience counts
Vattenfall is an experienced electric distribution network operator with a long history beginning in Sweden in the early 1900s. We are the largest electricity network operator in Sweden. We own, operate, and maintain a large estate of electrical power generation infrastructure, operating over 140,000 km of networks.
Electric Sustainability
For Vattenfall, electric sustainability means taking responsibility for future generations. Vattenfall uses GRI Reporting Guidelines as guiding principles for our sustainability reporting. In addition, as a signatory of the UN Global Compact, we report the company's sustainability performance every year according to the Global Reporting Initiative's guidelines.
Sustainability ratings are becoming an increasingly important consideration for investors as well as for business customers choosing energy suppliers. Vattenfall is proud to be highly ranked for its electric sustainability performance by a number of ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) rating agencies.
Certifications and Accreditations
Associations we work with
The Energy Networks Association is a not-for-profit industry body that represents the companies which operate the energy networks in the UK and Ireland.
ElectraLink operates the independent network and service that transfers data between energy companies in the UK electricity market, known as the Data Transfer Service.
DCUSA (the Distribution Connection and Use of System Agreement) is a multi-party contract between licensed electricity distributors, suppliers and generators in Great Britain.
RECCo own, maintain, and develop the Retail Energy Code. All licensed energy suppliers, electricity distribution network operators, metering operators and the Data Communication Company (DCC) must comply with the REC.
The DCC has designed, built, and now manages the telecommunications technology infrastructure that underpins the smart meter roll-out as well as delivering the central systems needed to support faster, more reliable switching.
Elexon manage the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) and compares how much electricity generators and suppliers say they will produce or consume with actual volumes, and work out a price for the difference.