The municipality of Best assumes that planned new homes can be connected to the electricity grid from 2028 onward, despite congestion on the grid. At the end of September, it was reported that congestion could temporarily freeze housing plans in five municipalities in the Eindhoven Metropolitan Region, including Best. The outlook for the wider Brainport region was less positive: without a prompt solution, 75% of the region’s new-build plans could be unable to proceed in the coming years. Nearly 24,000 of more than 31,000 homes had been registered for Enexis’s transitional scheme, covering projects that can start by early 2029. Best was among the municipalities identified as most affected, with 2,457 planned homes, alongside Asten, Nuenen, Son en Breugel and Waalre.