This ten-section sample shows the content and evidence discipline of a Power Reality Check. It contains no real client, site assessment or invented power entitlement. A commissioned opinion is 8 to 12 pages, supported by its evidence log.
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The opening page identifies the site boundary, the client’s decision, the review date and the material supplied. The commercial view is go, no-go or proceed with conditions, with its reasons and limitations stated together.
Illustrative treatment
Illustrative site: Sample Site A. This is a fictional label. No real site, client, utility agreement or commercial conclusion is represented here.
What the report records
What decision is the opinion intended to support?
Which site, phase and electrical boundary are in scope?
Which documents were available at the cut-off?
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Power Reality Check / Sample Site A
Executive commercial view
A concise account of the strongest evidence, the constraints that matter and the next decision. A hard stop is kept visible rather than averaged away by strengths elsewhere.
Illustrative treatment
Sample presentation: conclusion not assigned. A report structure without a real site and reviewed sources cannot support a commercial recommendation.
What the report records
State the commercial view and its evidence basis.
List the conditions that must be satisfied before the next commitment.
Distinguish a document request from a specialist investigation.
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Power position and capacity ladder
Applied, offered, accepted or contracted, and energised MVA are shown separately. Each rung records the amount, claim date, source, site boundary and verification level. IT load, facility load and import capacity retain their own units and bases.
Illustrative treatment
Sample ladder: applied MVA unknown; offered MVA unknown; accepted or contracted MVA unknown; energised MVA unknown. No marketing description raises the evidence class.
What the report records
Request the site-specific operator document and current conditions.
Confirm whether figures refer to the same phase and boundary.
Keep any conflicting source statements side by side.
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Country grid context and policy
The site position is read alongside the relevant TSO and DSO publications, regulator decisions, reinforcement projects and grid-works planning. Policy applicability is assessed separately from a claim that capacity exists.
Illustrative treatment
Sample context: country and operator not assigned. No policy obligation or network headroom is inferred for this fictional site.
What the report records
Identify the relevant operator and connection point.
Check the operative policy, its date and its applicability.
Separate mapped headroom from a site-specific entitlement.
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Energisation dependencies
A derived scenario window shows its inputs and calculation rule. Published process durations, required reinforcements, grid-works planning and policy prerequisites are reconciled. Unsupported bounds remain open.
Illustrative treatment
Sample output: earliest year unknown; latest year unknown. Missing rung date, applicable process timeline and reinforcement dependencies prevent a defensible range.
What the report records
Which prerequisites control the earliest case?
Which published dates are binding dependencies?
What would have to be true for the earliest case to hold?
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Planning, zoning, land and control
The planning route, decision conditions and adopted zoning are matched to the stated site. Published ownership and footprint information are distinguished from verified control, rights of access and net developable area.
Illustrative treatment
Sample position: no parcel or planning reference supplied. Control, availability, zoning and permission status remain unknown.
What the report records
Match the red-line boundary to the application and adopted policy.
Request current title, control and access evidence from the appropriate adviser.
Identify conditions, appeals, expiry dates and enabling works.
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Fibre, environment, water and cooling
The assessment records the public evidence for site entry, diverse physical fibre routes, water supply and discharge, cooling proposals and environmental constraints. A regional network or nearby utility is not treated as a site service.
Illustrative treatment
Sample position: no route, utility agreement or environmental document has been reviewed. No usable service or absence of constraints is asserted.
What the report records
Request site-specific fibre routes and service proposals.
Confirm water, cooling, discharge and heat-reuse assumptions.
Identify the ground, flood, ecology and other specialist checks still required.
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Connection scope and indicative cost
A connection capex band is calculated only where the published scope can be matched to dated country reference bands with compatible voltage, configuration, currency and price basis. Components and exclusions are shown.
Illustrative treatment
Sample output: complete connection capex unknown. Neither a published works scope nor matching cost references has been assigned. No generic cost per megawatt is substituted.
What the report records
Identify substation configuration, bays, circuits and route type.
Confirm published route length rather than straight-line distance.
List missing quantities and reference categories before calculating.
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Conditions and next actions
The closing action list ties each unresolved point to the document or specialist check needed. Alternatives such as generation, storage, private wire and gas are included only where evidenced, with any applicable planning or policy requirement.
Illustrative treatment
Sample next step: define the site and gather the relevant public and authorised documents. The illustrative template itself supports no judgement on the site’s viability.
What the report records
Prioritise the questions that could change the decision.
State which evidence would close each question.
Keep unknowns and unresolved conflicts in the hand-off.
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Evidence log and derivation record
Every source used is logged with its publisher, title, link or authorised-document reference, source date, date accessed and evidence grade. Derived statements identify the observed inputs and the rule used. The full evidence log accompanies the written opinion.
Illustrative treatment
Sample source entry: no source reviewed. Source date, access date and verification level are not invented. This illustrative sample is a report structure, not a completed assessment.
What the report records
Observed: attribute the statement to the named source.
Derived: show the calculation, inputs and limitations.
Unknown: state the missing evidence and the question to resolve.
