Making the most of the electricity we store
Of all the new emerging energy technologies being developed, electricity storage stands to make the most immediate impact on the energy market.
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Making the most of your assets
If energy networks are to cope successfully with the new demands arising from the decarbonisation of the energy system, whilst maintaining a reliable service to customers and minimising costs, it will be vital for them to maximise the performance of their assets.
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Man cheats death after coming into contact with power line
The network operator, which has restored power to 23,000 homes since Thursday evening, revealed that on Saturday (3 March) afternoon a walker saw a large tree branch hanging from an overhead line in a row of trees in Mottram, Hyde, Greater Manchester and attempted to remove it himself. After ‘feeling a tingle’ he then called Electricity North West who immediately cut power to the line from its control room in Manchester and advised him to stay away from the line.
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Managing customer expectations
Digital disruptors such as AirBnb, Zopa and GiffGaff manage to deliver impeccable customer service and remain within arm’s reach of their customers at all times despite changing expectations. What lessons can we learn from them and how do they relate to network asset performance?
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Managing vegetation
Point4, the UK leader in the effective and efficient mitigation of tree risk to critical infrastructure, has announced that it has been awarded a grant by the European Space Agency to help co-fund a 30-month project looking into how satellites can be used to help network operators manage the growing problem of vegetation management.
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Major power cut could have been prevented, expert claims
The UK suffered a major power cut, following simultaneous failures at a gas fired power plant in Bedfordshire and an offshore wind farm in East Yorkshire. The result was chaos for almost a million people living in England and Wales, with areas affected including London and the major transport network.
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Make the future better by design
According to EU Skills, some of the hardest jobs to fi ll in the utilities industry today include: site managers, project managers, power systems engineers, commissioning engineers, overhead linespeople, substation engineers and, interestingly, design engineers. This is concerning because energy networks are becoming smarter and more complex, which is precisely when design skills come to the fore.
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Making climate change local with UK100
Local authority leaders from across the UK have been working to address the challenge of climate change since at least the early 1990s, with the advent of Agenda 21, the United Nations’ non-binding action plan on sustainable development, produced at the Rio Earth Summit 1992.
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Making excavation safer
It has been widely estimated that more than four million excavations take place across Great Britain each year. In 2017, only 2.25 million of these involved a thorough search for pipes and cables before the work commenced. This means that 44 per cent did so without detailed examination for existing underground assets. This puts the critical utility infrastructure at constant risk of being accidentally damaged.
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Making networks tick
As John Parsons argued in the June issue, network charging is an arcane topic but going forward holds the key to the transformation of the electricity system. And Ofgem have recently published their latest consultation on the topic highlighting the importance the regulator attaches to the issue.
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