Flexibility is key
The portable ‘plug & play’ relay and control rooms provided by design and engineering experts Acrastyle offer just this flexibility, enabling network operators to respond rapidly to changing needs.
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Flexible connections free 3.7GW of network capacity
In 2016 Ofgem called on DNOs to find new ways of speeding up the connection process, including flexible connections, active management, consortiums and enforcing progression milestones.
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Flexible Networks: Storage & DSR Conference
The conference will explore the drivers for flexibility and set the strategic context, before diving into the detail of operational and technical solutions around storage and DSR, including the latest findings from innovation-funded studies. It will ask how customers and other stakeholders can be engaged in the transition, and will look at the role of flexibility beyond the network, at grid-level.
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Flexitricity secures £20m in savings over a decade of smart grid operations
The demand side response firm has generated £12m in direct revenue for British businesses since going live in 2008, by helping them respond to shortfalls and excesses in the nation’s energy supply.
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First live hydrogen trials on campus ‘living lab’
Buildings on the Staffordshire campus are now being heated by the 20% hydrogen and methane blend, after the trial was sanctioned from a safety perspective by the government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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First power conductor in 30 years doubles capacity in Scotland
The Aluminium Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR) by technology company 3M is the first new power conductor to be made live on the Scottish transmission network in 30 years.
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First trial selling ‘heat as a service’ instead of KWh
Currently energy suppliers in the UK can only sell energy to customers in strict units known as kilowatt hours (kWh). But through a government-backed trial run by Energy Systems Catapult, Bristol Energy is offering households the chance to buy a ‘Heat Plan’ tailored to their individual home and lifestyle.
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Final stage of Lewes power upgrade starts
Engineers have been carrying out improvements at an electricity substation that delivers power supplies to thousands of local homes and businesses.
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Finding faults
Ofgem figures show that the number of electricity interruptions was above 40 per 100 customers at 11 of the 14 network operators in 2016/17.
First blockchain based grid asset register launched
The partners will build a “first-of-a-kind” shared asset register of electricity generation and storage connected to the transmission and distribution networks.
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