Data is key to delivering smarter DSOs
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Data: maximising value, minimising risk
We’re often told that energy data is valuable. Less often discussed is the fact that handling data can be risky. But just as not all data is equally valuable, some types of data are riskier than others. The trick is to maximise value while minimising risk.
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David Rutherford, chief executive, Power Networks Demonstration Centre
UK energy networks are at a turning point and leaders in the sector have must some big decisions about how they want their companies to be defined in a time of transformation, according to David Rutherford, chief executive of the Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC).
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David Smith: Turning up the network heat
It was a busy summer for our energy future, including the start of the RIIO 2 process for network regulation, an independent review of electricity costs, a commitment to clean transport, and the publication of the BEIS/Ofgem Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan in July.
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Dealing with a digitalised grid if the internet breaks down
Let’s imagine we are now living with a smarter, cleaner grid. In this network utopia, much progress has been made electrifying transport and heating, with “smart systems” allowing much of the national fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps to adjust their demand patterns according to the capacity available on the network.
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Dealing with data
The decarbonisation of the energy system is driving energy networks to become smarter, more flexible and more closely integrated.
Dealing with distributed energy
Sector-wide initiatives to develop and offer to customers quicker and lower capital DG integration into the distribution network began in the early 2000s. Various ad hoc approaches utilising available protection, control and operational communications technologies had already been implemented in a small number of places at that point. But interest and activity in ANM grew quickly in parallel with both clean energy incentives and network innovation funding. A major breakthrough came in the form of a multiple generating unit, multiple network constraint ANM system in the renewable rich Orkney Islands. Scottish & Southern Energy Networks and Smarter Grid Solutions pioneered a more sophisticated, scalable and acceptable technological approach to flexible DG connections and the ANM system in Orkney has now been in continuous and successful operation for 10 years delivering significant benefits to renewable generator and customers.
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Cutting the cost of the networks
Over the past year the Somerset coast has become a hive of activity where the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is being built, on one of the largest construction sites in Europe.
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Cyber security: defending the grid
What’s the potential worst-case scenario for a state-sponsored cyber-attack on our electricity networks?
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Cybersecurity: defending the grid
But just how vulnerable is the grid? Network asked two experts at the Institution of Engineering and Technology: Professor Roger Kemp, IET’s Energy Policy Panel and Ahmed Kotb, IET digital lead.
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