CLRD

How it works

Your DNO application in seven steps. About four minutes.

The same workflow every time, whether it's a single residential install or your two thousandth dwelling on a national framework. Enter the job once. CLRD routes it deterministically, builds the pack, submits it and closes it out.

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The product

One outcome: a compliant DNO application pack, generated deterministically.

Everything in the seven steps below, and every feature on this site, exists to produce one artefact: a submission ready DNO pack for your job, built the same way every time.

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CLRD single line diagram generator, with each PV string set to its panels and watts, connected to the inverter and drawn into a DNO ready diagramCLRD single line diagram generator, with each PV string set to its panels and watts, connected to the inverter and drawn into a DNO ready diagramEnlarge
  1. 01

    Create the job

    Every job starts the same way, whether it's one survey or a whole phase of a project.

    Address, customer name, MPAN, validated as you type. CLRD identifies the DNO from it. Thirty seconds and the job exists. Optionally, upload the site survey, the design proposal and a photo of the bill on the Client step, and Auto-Extract fills in the client, site and system details for you to check. At volume nothing gets typed at all: your CRM creates jobs over the API, or one multi premise batch fans out into a standalone job per premises.

    Auto-Extract →
    Step 01
    CLRD job creation capturing the site address and MPANCLRD job creation capturing the site address and MPANEnlarge
  2. 02

    Enter the job details

    Phase, kW, batteries, load, export. Captured once, and every routing decision is derived from it.

    Pick equipment from the integrated ENA registers: inverters, batteries, EV charge points and heat pumps. No retyping, no PDF hunting, no wondering whether a model is approved. Where an inverter's Intrinsic Design Capacity is above its Registered Capacity, CLRD fills it in: we read thousands of manufacturer datasheets and checked every IDC we fill in by hand, because IDC decides between G98 and G99. Set an export limit where the job needs one. CLRD covers domestic and commercial systems: solar and battery up to 1 MW three phase, with the Standard Application Form above 50 kW, and EV chargers and heat pumps up to 50 kW.

    Step 02
    CLRD system details: picking a three phase solar inverter from the ENA register, filtered by capacity and type testCLRD system details: picking a three phase solar inverter from the ENA register, filtered by capacity and type testEnlarge
  3. 03

    CLRD routes it deterministically

    The decision that used to depend on who was doing it. Now it doesn't.

    We route deterministically to the right DNO and the right form, G98 or G99 including the Fast Track procedures, using the ENA thresholds coded into the routing engine. G100 evidence travels with the pack wherever export limiting applies. Then we tell you why that route was chosen, not just what it was.

    DNO routing →ENA database →SLDs →
    Step 03
    CLRD job routed to the EVCP and HP application because more than one piece of equipment is proposed, showing the demand per phase and that a DNO application is required before installationCLRD job routed to the EVCP and HP application because more than one piece of equipment is proposed, showing the demand per phase and that a DNO application is required before installationEnlarge
  4. 04

    Add the evidence, generate the pack

    The parts only you can supply. Everything else is already done.

    Set the installation date and generate the configurable SLD with one click. Upload the cut-out photograph and draw the boundary on the interactive map, placing the meter where it sits. The client signs in the app, by uploaded signature, or through a secure link sent to them. Record the loop impedance readings where the DNO asks for them, then generate the pack.

    Step 04
    CLRD interactive site boundary map, with the property outlined and the electricity meter pinnedCLRD interactive site boundary map, with the property outlined and the electricity meter pinnedEnlarge
  5. 05

    Review and submit

    You stay in control. Nothing leaves the platform unless you say so.

    Read the pack over, then submit it to the DNO from the platform, with the pack there to download if you want your own copy. Every submission is stored on the job, who sent what and under which rule version, visible to your team at the level their role allows, and all of it extracts for audit.

    Step 05
    CLRD confirming before the document pack is sent to the DNOCLRD confirming before the document pack is sent to the DNOEnlarge
  6. 06

    The DNO answers

    The wait is where jobs used to go missing. Now it's tracked.

    Replies from every DNO land on the job's own thread, not in someone's inbox. While you wait, the job shows how long approval usually takes for its DNO and route, where CLRD has the figures, and if the DNO goes quiet the job flags it: no acknowledgement within 2 working days at operators that send one automatically (10 elsewhere), or no decision after 28 days. When the approval arrives in a format CLRD recognises, it reads it, with coded rules rather than AI: the job says the DNO has approved, the reference and any export limit are filled in for you to confirm, and once you have, one click sends the letter to your client. If the DNO asks for a change, amend the application on the same job: only the changed documents go, as a reply on the same thread, and the original stays on file. Switch the dashboard to the Workflow view and every job sits under its stage, from Not sent yet through Notification submitted to Complete.

    Step 06
    CLRD job banner: UK Power Networks approved the application but restricted export to 2.5 kW, quoting the line from their letter, with Confirm Approved opening with the reference and the limit filled inCLRD job banner: UK Power Networks approved the application but restricted export to 2.5 kW, quoting the line from their letter, with Confirm Approved opening with the reference and the limit filled inEnlarge
  7. 07

    Commission and close out

    The install is done. The compliance isn't.

    After the install, CLRD produces the post install forms and walks the real commissioning checklist. Any changes at the time of install are recorded here, so the forms match what was actually built. The engineer who did the work signs by secure link, it comes back into the platform, and whoever runs the admin closes the job out.

    Step 07
    CLRD commissioning checklist with each required check itemised and signed offCLRD commissioning checklist with each required check itemised and signed offEnlarge

Why this matters

The same job, two very different days.

Workflow
CLRD
Manual / Spreadsheet
Pick the right form (G98/G99/G100)
Routed automatically with reasoning shown
Engineer guesses or asks a colleague
Draw the SLD
Generated from site details, in seconds
External CAD or hand drawn, hours
Equipment references
Pulled from integrated ENA database
PDF hunting, spreadsheet lookups
Assemble the pack
One click. Stamped. Versioned.
Manual collation, easy to miss a file
Submit to the DNO
Direct from CLRD where supported
Email, portal, attachment juggling
Audit trail
Built automatically with every job
Whatever's left in your inbox

See it on your own job.

Bring a real address and run it through yourself: routing, pack and audit trail, in about four minutes.

First job free. No card to start.

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