With the energy system in the midst of unprecedented change, Northern Powergrid wants to put its eight million customers at the heart of the smart grid and will draw up recommendations as part of a £1.9 million, three-year project – the Customer-Led Distribution System. The project will identify the best use of technologies in a future smart energy system and the business models and policies necessary to support them.
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Clean air day quietly came and went this summer, buried in political drama. It’s over a year since air quality in the UK was declared “unlawful” yet the public health crisis continues.
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Substation monitoring has been an area of interest amongst distribution network operators (DNOs) for some time, as the way consumers use and interact with the network changes due to the relatively rapid growth of photovoltaic installations, electric vehicles, domestic-level battery storage and so on. Before these relatively new technologies were widely adopted, it was sufficient to manually record a reading from an analogue maximum demand indicator during a physical inspection once or twice a year, but this is no longer considered sufficient by many in the industry who are now interested in annual and diurnal patterns, harmonics and more.
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Private sector heat network operators have voiced concerns that rapid deployment will exacerbate the current problems with the quality of design and implementation of schemes in comparison to those in continental Europe.
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Researchers from the University of Bath have called for a “rapid rethink” on smart meters.
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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ (SSEN) substation, located on Great Northern Road in Woodside, is now a vibrant feature of the area following a partnership between Kittybrewster School pupils, older members of the local community and London-based Artmongers.
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The investment programme over the next two years will see new electrical equipment installed across the city, including new, innovative devices to restore power to SSEN’s customers should faults occur.
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Hinkley Point C will be the UK’s first new nuclear power plant to be built for a generation and will provide seven per cent of the country’s electricity from 2025. The order was booked in the third quarter of 2017.
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The upgrade will increase power capacity and allow more renewable generation to connect to the network in southwest Scotland.
ABB wins £11.8m SPEN contract for substation upgrade Read More »
The link is part of a trial being conducted by Western Power Distribution, called the Equilibrium project, to connect two separate 33kV distribution network groups in Devon, southwest England, to balance voltage and power flows.
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