It’s difficult to know where to start with innovation, especially when your sector is in the throes of change which reaches both broadly and deeply into operations and market structures. When almost every aspect of your business is challenged, how do you prioritise work on transformation and adaptation?
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You’ll forgive me for starting this first round up with a few thoughts on Brexit and its undoubtedly enormous implications for all parts of British society and industry – including networks.
Editor’s weekly: Brexit should spur industry collaboration Read More »
The champagne is no doubt still flowing at the eight energy storage providers who landed contracts with National Grid’s enhanced frequency response service on Friday 26 August.
Editor’s weekly: EFR winners and losers Read More »
The Low Carbon Networks and Innovation (LCNI) conference, now the energy networks’ de facto event for dissemination of findings from funded innovation schemes, took place last week on Electricity North West’s (ENW’s) patch.
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In yet another week of political tumult the Department of Energy and Climate change has met its fate and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) has risen glorious from the ashes.
Editor’s weekly: The department is dead, long live the department! Read More »
Networks mostly heaved a sigh of relief earlier this month when Ofgem released the findings of an independent review of Low Carbon Network Fund spending.
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The need for whole system thinking about energy has been a consistent thread running through industry debate this year. It was a key theme at the LCNI conference in Manchester (p18) and the raison d’etre for the Future Power System Architecture study.
Editor’s weekly: Gas future still unsettled Read More »
Delays to key consultations on the future of the energy system rumble on.
Editor’s weekly: Political turmoil hampers innovation direction Read More »
We all know that the delayed national rollout of smart meters is going to have to ramp up steeply in the coming couple of years in order to meet expectations for every home in the UK to have been offered a smart gas and electric meter by 2020. From the handful of SMETS1 installations currently made each day, suppliers will need to achieve a rate of around 5,000 SMETS 2 meters per day at peak, after the Data and Communications Company central system goes live.
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The revolution is growing in pace and reach.
Editor’s weekly: the next phase for decarbonisation Read More »
