Network responses to the threat of Covid-19 have been confident and effective. But as lockdown wears on, leaders are turning their eyes to longer term worries, writes Jane Gray.
Editor’s blog: The biggest tests of resilience are yet to come 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 »
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.
Editor’s weekly: Smart meters and gas safety Read More »
The revolution is growing in pace and reach.
Editor’s weekly: the next phase for decarbonisation Read More »
These contracts represent the Group’s strategy to become the first-choice multi-utility infrastructure design and installation specialist. This ambition will be supported by the sale of Fulcrum’s domestic gas connection assets, order book and associated meters to E.S. Pipelines (ESP) Ltd.
Dunamis announces £8.9m in new utility infrastructure contracts Read More »
“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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The three-year programme which began in May 2018, coordinated by the EIC, led by Wales & West Utilities in collaboration with Cadent, National Grid Gas Transmission, Northern Gas Networks, Northern Powergrid, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks and UK Power Networks, and supported by Connected Places Catapult, is a UK first and a designated Government Pathfinder Project.
Drone project begins flight trials on energy network assets Read More »
Conducted by Wiltshire based aviation specialists, Callen-Lenz, the completion of the trials (which covered an unprecedented total distance of 688km BVLOS over a combined 640 minutes), mark a key milestone in the journey towards establishing a regularised framework for the use of drones BVLOS in the UK.
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