Commissioned by the department formerly known as Decc, the Future Power Systems Architecture report took a year to compile and has been on the cusp of launching since May.
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No sitcom or soap opera has ever maintained such a s successful “will they-wont they” drama as EDF and the UK government have achieved over Hinkley Point C.
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There’s a looming “back to school” atmosphere as the August lull for business and industry draws to a close.
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“You learn, you change, you adapt and you move forward.” The pace of innovation across the gas and electricity networks is perhaps best summed up by this phrase.
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Paul Beck, director of smart grid solutions at Lucy Electric, encourages customers to look at not how much data they can collect, but what that data can be used for, and the actions that will result from it. “What is important to DNOs, and in the transition to DSO, is not data, but information,” he says. “You can end up with an awful lot of data – in fact, far more than can be processed. It is extracting the information for analysis that is important.”
Q: What are the major milestones the Power Responsive campaign has achieved in its first year?
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Vattenfall’s head of business area distribution says the company will draw on its experience in Sweden when starting electrical distribution network operations in Great Britain.
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If the UK is to solve the challenge of meeting its heat needs in a decarbonised, affordable and secure manner it is going to need a multipronged approach. That was the strategy put forward by Imperial College London last year in its Managing Heat System Decarbonisation report. While the proposal is already largely accepted as good sense, last month the results of WWU’s Cornwall Energy project demonstrated with hard facts why a single technology strategy is a recipe for failure.
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The UK Government has said that it will revise building regulations because of the issues raised by the appalling tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire. While attention is rightly concentrated on the building fabric and the safety of the people living in flats, attention on this sector may also provide the right time to improve residents long-term comfort and reduce their heating costs by setting quality standards for their heating.
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