The gas emergency and pipeline service for Wales and the south west of England has seen a huge growth in demand for power station connections to its gas network since 2013 and the event was held to share best practice from viewpoint of both a gas distribution network (GDN) and developers.
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The event took place on Thursday (26 September) evening at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool with more than 350 guests from the utilities sector and innovation community attending the glittering ceremony, which was organised by the EIC.
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The UK government backed Catapult offers innovator support across three tiers: Universal, Incubation and Acceleration, with the Innovator Support Portal (‘the Portal’) detailing Universal offerings, including:
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Modern Energy Partners (MEP) is a collaborative project between Energy Systems Catapult, the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working with private sector specialists and Crown Commercial Service. It received £2 million in funding from the BEIS Energy Innovation Programme.
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Robots that can repair gas mains. Drones that can be used to monitor electricity pylons, and technology that reduces the voltage on an electricity network at the flick of switch. These are just some of the projects that energy networks and other businesses have developed over the past few years.
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This brings to total investment the EIC has brokered in energy innovation to £15.7m since the EIC was launched in 2008.
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The payoffs of innovation in terms of sustainable revenue growth, reduced expenditure and enhanced customer experience are clearly appealing to DNOs. Despite this, however, investments in innovation certainly don’t come with a guarantee of automatic success.
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The electricity and gas networks are no longer the hidden heroes of the energy industry. Over the last few years they have been steadily improving their service for the public – delivering lower cost and more reliable power and gas than ever before. Power cuts are fewer and shorter while the gas network is so reliable that the probability of an unplanned supply interruption is once every 140 years.
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Fundamentally, they need to optimise their existing assets – cutting losses and leaks, adding connections and customers – to meet the expectations of Ofgem and Ofwat, while also re-shaping their businesses to achieve full and rapid decarbonisation.
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