The three-year study found that up to 95% of people would be happy to avoid charging at times of peak grid demand, or when electricity is at its most expensive.
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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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While we are used to the occasional power outage, lasting perhaps a few hours and limited to a small area, the electricity sector also has plans in place to deal with much more severe and widespread disruptions to power, and being able to restore supplies as quickly as possible. Peter Jones, technical manager at the ERP notes that, “while we are confident the current system is resilient to a wide range of extreme events today, looking forward we can see a number of significant long-term trends that may impact the system resilience in the decades to come.”
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The visit on Wednesday (5 September) coincided with the start of the company’s 10th year of trading. The firm is a leading provider of distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) software for major utilities across the world.
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The seed money is the first to be handed out as part of the Heat Networks Investment Project, for which a £320 million pot has been set aside by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
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As the low-carbon energy market continues to develop, network operators will need to know a lot more about what is happening on their systems. New Thames Valley Vision (NTVV), a Low Carbon Networks Fund (LCNF) project led by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), has looked at how this can be done.
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The hiatus over Hinkley Point C only throws into sharper focus the question of how the UK can produce reliable low carbon power. Yes, solar and offshore wind are coming down in price, but to meet its carbon targets the country is going to need large scale, round the clock low carbon power generation.
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Turnover in the UK’s low carbon and renewable energy economy (LCREE) was estimated at £46.7 bn in 2018, up 16% from £40.4 bn in 2015.
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The model is being developed through the Bedminster project in which Low Carbon and ENE are working together with Bristol City Council on the deployment of a heat network.
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Bean Beanland argued that electricity-powered heat pumps are the most viable low carbon heat solution for new homes or retro-fits today, while widescale conversion of the gas grid to hydrogen is at least ten to 15 years away.
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