Ipsum, which is headquartered in Preston, was backed by Aliter Capital LLP in January 2017 and acts as the holding company for Aliter’s investments into the utilities and infrastructure support services sector.
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Cloud computing is big business. Amazon’s AWS division, the industry’s largest cloud provider, is fast approaching the $10 billion mark in annual revenue, earned by selling computing capacity to businesses and public sector organisations around the world.
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The network operator won the 2019 EEI International Edison Award at a ceremony in Philadelphia, United States, for its part in enabling Britain’s low carbon transition.
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“This price control comes at a crucial time of tackling climate change – the most urgent challenge facing the planet with Britain well placed to be at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions,” Pettifer (pictured) explains. “National Grid, believes this must be tackled through collaborative efforts. We need to see much greater progress in making areas like heat and transport cleaner and at a low cost for our planet and energy users. That is why our gas innovation projects are looking at how we can use hydrogen in our networks to support the low carbon transition and bring down costs for consumers. We are also making sure that the right electric vehicle charging infrastructure is in place across the country, to facilitate a rise in electric vehicles on our roads. To reduce electric vehicle range anxiety and improve uptake, we have identified 54 locations for strategic ultra-rapid charging along the motorway network. These can charge a car in the time it takes to buy a coffee. Ultimately, we need to transition to a new low-carbon, low-cost energy system where consumers can see the clear benefits of the energy transmission networks.”
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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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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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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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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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In recent years our gas and electricity networks have started along a path of significant transformation, as they adapt to meet the variety of challenges associated with decarbonisation. Through the increasing use of new technology to improve the efficiency of our electricity distribution networks and the injection of green gas into the grid, we are already beginning to see how this transformation can deliver security and affordability for energy customers in a low carbon economy.
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