Briefings
Short notes on a document that moved. Each one is dated, each claim carries the source it came from, and anything we could not verify is left out rather than guessed.
- ENA EREC G98 Issue 24 min
G98 or G99? Sixteen amps decides it, and it is a design decision
The threshold between the two British connection regimes is a current, not a category — and a product that lands just above it inherits a materially heavier type-test programme.
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- SI 2024/6964 min
The UKCA deadline you are thinking of is not a deadline
CE marking is accepted in Great Britain indefinitely. The date most people are worried about governs something else entirely.
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- ENA EREC G99 Issue 25 min
G99 Issue 2's storage requirements came into force in March
If you connect electricity storage in Britain, the regime changed on 1 March 2026 — and the standard names the test equipment it expects you to use.
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- DEFCON 6584 min
DEFCON 658 reaches you, whether or not you contract with the MOD
The clause flows down every tier of the supply chain, the risk model changed in December 2025, and there is a date on it.
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- 4 min
There is no government framework for buying test equipment
We checked all 95 live agreements. None of them supplies laboratory, scientific or electronic test instruments — and saying so is more useful than implying otherwise.
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