Three positions with one name
Land with an existing connection: a line already serves the site, whether or not it's used today. Land near a substation or a line: no connection yet, but one is within reach. Land under or beside a high-voltage line: the line is there, and a connection isn't a given. The word "connected" on its own doesn't say which of the three you have.
What decides it
In the Nordics, capacity is allocated by the grid operator, and part of what it knows is public. A line over a plot shows where the cable runs, not what's available on it. powered land in the Nordics covers how operators reserve and queue capacity, and the Nordic grids side by side lines up the three main ones.
What we do with it
We study the lines and substations around the site and what a connection would take, and we deal with the grid operator ourselves. You don't need to know the capacity before you write.
Not sure which one you have?
Say so. Tell us where the line or the substation is and what you know, and we'll read it against what the operator publishes.
Questions we get
There's a line over my land but no connection. Does that count?
Tell us about it. A line crossing a plot isn't a connection, and we look at both.
How close to a substation does the land have to be?
We don't work from a distance. Tell us where the substation is and we'll look at the site.
Do you only look at land in the Nordics?
No. The Nordics are where we do most of our work, and we look anywhere in Europe where the power and the site line up.
Related: grid connection capacity, former industrial sites and Norway.