More than 5600 applications for power access have been on the waiting list of Dutch network operators for some time. And the number continues to rise. The reason for the long time it takes to execute the applications is that the grid expansion is too costly, there is a shortage of staff and, in general, the capacity of the power grid is insufficient, as the journalistic research platform Pointer (KRO-NCRV) has discovered. Of the 5,600 applications in the waiting list, 2,200 applications are for a new connection and the rest are for the extension of an existing power access.