What Wattlas is
Wattlas is an independent grid-intelligence publisher for Europe. We produce source-backed intelligence on commercially relevant grid changes, published as they emerge, for the teams making site, project and investment decisions: developers, investors, lenders, suppliers and advisors.
What we track
Wattlas tracks grid capacity, congestion, connection constraints, planned reinforcements and capacity-change signals. The first live region is Brainport (Eindhoven, Helmond and the surrounding service areas). Coverage expands region by region, only where source quality is strong enough.
How we work
Grid capacity data in the Netherlands is published across dozens of separate sources, in Dutch, updated on different schedules and at different levels of detail. Wattlas combines these official sources into one readable format: a source log for every figure, and snapshots over time so change is visible, not only the current status. The interpretation is in English; the original source names, grid operators and official document titles are kept as published, so every claim stays traceable back to its source.
Verification
Not every figure carries the same weight, and Wattlas is explicit about that distinction on every area and station rather than presenting one blended color. Verified data comes from an official congestion study, traceable to a dated report with underlying MW figures. Map-export data comes from the official capacity map status, without those underlying figures. Both are useful. They are not the same thing.
How we source-lock a claim
Every figure Wattlas publishes goes through the same four-part record before it is used: the claim itself, the primary source it comes from, the date that source was checked, and a confidence rating. If a claim needs more than one confirmation to publish safely, it stays unpublished until a second independent source agrees, or it is labelled single-source so a reader knows exactly how much weight to give it.
A real example
Issue #002's claim that a shared connection queue, ordered by the ACM priority framework, replaced the automatic small-connection reservation in Enexis congestion zones from 1 July 2026 is source-locked as follows: the claim, quoted from the primary announcement; the source, Enexis' own "Nieuwe werkwijze voor stroomaanvragen" notice, with the date it was checked; and the confidence rating, high, because an independent second source, VNG's own notice on the same ACM rule change, confirmed the identical claim without Wattlas needing to rely on Enexis alone. Where a claim cannot get that second confirmation, it is published as single-source and labelled that way, not silently treated as equally certain.
This is why a Wattlas figure carries a source link and a date wherever it appears, on an Issue, a region page or the statistics page: the link and date are not decoration, they are the same record a reader could go build for themselves.
What Wattlas is not
Wattlas is not legal advice, not connection advice, and not a real-time grid operations feed. Wattlas does not guarantee capacity or availability for any specific connection or project. Whether power is actually available for a given application is determined by the grid operator's own technical assessment, not by this analysis.
Contact
Wattlas works asynchronously. For general questions: [email protected]. For coverage and data questions: [email protected]. No calls, no meetings. We reply by email.