[TomSwirly]

> Why would anyone out of the blue willingly make their personal area worse?

Because infrastructure has go somewhere.

The Netherlands has this issue: everyone resists any energy infrastructure in their area. Now there are many people who own new houses who can't move in because there's no electric power for them. Nuclear power is impossible because of NIMBY, so 85% of the energy is fossil fuel based.

[givemeethekeys]

How is it that someone purchased a home that can not receive electricity? Was the home sold for much cheaper, since the electricity was, "up to the buyer" to figure out?

[TomSwirly]

There is a huge housing crisis in the Netherlands, so people purchase homes before they are built, and sometimes a group of people get together to build homes that way.

In order to do this, you need to have all your permits in order. Unfortunately, the energy companies announced out of the blue that they didn't have enough energy to accommodate all their new obligations...

[delfinom]

They said "own new homes". So it's not an existing house and was probably a development job.

And of course they probably never attempted to get electrical utility planning permission until they already sunk money into construction.

The same actually very rarely happens in the US, where utilities of all kinds have capacity planning that can result in a denial of services for new hookups.