The fastest route for the job. Never the engineer's queue.

What it is

The quickest route to the DNO, for every job

CLRD knows how every DNO takes applications: its own criteria, its own inboxes, its own fast tracks, and whether a job can go through the portal. From that it gives every job the quickest route it qualifies for, and sends it there.

Why it matters

The portal approves automatically only when every check passes. A job that fails one isn't turned away. It's passed to a DNO engineer and waits in a second queue behind everyone else's, and a quick approval becomes a long wait. CLRD runs those checks first. A job that will pass goes through the portal, one that won't goes straight to the connections team, so it starts in the right queue and never sits in the wrong one.

For jobs that clear first time, at every DNO.

• Each DNO's own requirements held per operator: inboxes by standard, procedure and phase, their own forms, and their notes on the job.
• The DNO's portal used only where the job meets every check it runs, on UK Power Networks today.
• Size and phase limits checked before anything is sent, so a job is never filed where it will fail.
• Operator fast tracks built for: SSEN's loop impedance form, UK Power Networks' loop impedance statement, SPEN's site boundary map.
• Networks that take applications only through their own portal are flagged, with the pack ready to send there.
• Every reply lands on the job thread, whichever way the application went.