Power
Editor’s weekly: A challenge awaits response
Network editor Jane Gray breaks down the content of the Future Power Systems Architecture report and wonders if industry will embrace its challenge.
Power
BEIS could boost electricity efficiency savings
Bringing together energy and business in one department could boost electrical efficiency savings particularly from the industrial sector.
Heat
Businesses can bridge electricity capacity gap by 2020
Independent access to the wholesale market and the balancing mechanism for demand-side response would help businesses bridge the electricity capacity gap by 2020.
Power
Change voltage and frequency limits for power system transformation, says academic
Changes to the established limits for voltage and frequency in the UK power system should be changed quickly to enable wider system transformation to progress, Newcastle University’s Professor Phil Taylor has said.
Power
EU network codes will have unintended consequences for UK energy system warns expert
The introduction of EU network codes could have negative unintended consequences for the evolution of the UK power system, industry expert John Scott has warned.
Gas
Energy & Utility Skills Group appoints new chair
The energy and utilities sector body for development of skills and training standards has appointed Jan Ward CBE as its new chair.
Gas
New governance needed for UK power grid: FPSA report
New organisational and governance capabilities will be required in order to support urgent reform of the UK power grid's functionality, according to the authors of the Future Power Systems Architecture (FPSA) report.
Heat
Editor’s weekly: The department is dead, long live the department!
Network editor Jane Gray reviews the demise of Decc and the rise of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Gas
Labour backs gas grid evolution
The Labour Party has voiced its support for the continued use of gas grids in the future through the use of secure and sustainable green gas.
Power
Hoppecke launch explosion-proof EV battery
Industrial battery system manufacturer Hoppecke Industrial Batteries has launched an explosion-proof battery and charger for use in electric and hybrid vehicles.
Gas
Utility Week Congress
The Utility Week Congress is the flagship annual event for forward-thinking water, gas and electricity sector leaders responding to industry change.
Gas
Gas network evolution cheapest way to decarbonise heat
Evolving the gas network to use green gases is the cheapest and most practical way to tackle the heat decarbonisation challenge, according to a report commissioned by the Energy Networks Association (ENA).
Power
UKPN apprentices inaugurate new Trailblazer standard
15 UKPN apprentices have become the first trainees to graduate from the power network craftsperson apprenticeship programme.
Gas
Network Asset Performance Conference
The Network Asset Performance Conference is the leading event for asset and operations leaders looking to enhance asset performance and mitigate risk in energy networks.
Power
Utility Week Health & Safety
The 4th annual Utility Week Health & Safety Conference is an essential event for SHEW professionals seeking input regarding leadership & organisational change, drone/UAV use & regulation, leading safety from the board, communication & awareness innovation, when cases go to trial, individual and corporate attitudes to H&S, occupational health & wellbeing, and more.
Power
Utility Week HR Forum
The Utility Week HR Forum is unique: it is the only event that exclusively brings utility sector HR leaders together for a day of training, recruitment, well-being, reward and people development excellence.
Power
Eaton launches UK storage roadshow
Industrial products and energy management company Eaton has launched a UK roadshow to promote its growing portfolio of energy storage solutions.
Gas
100% hydrogen gas grid feasible says NGN
Gas distribution company Northern Gas Networks has published the findings of its H21 project which suggest a conversion of the existing gas grid to carry 100% hydrogen is feasible and desirable.
Gas
Editor’s weekly: the next phase for decarbonisation
Whole system thinking about energy is coming into its own as the capacity of the power sector to take us further down the road to decarbonisation runs low.
Gas
‘Question mark remains’ over the future of gas: National Grid
A question mark remains over what role gas will play in the UK’s future energy system, National Grid has said.
Gas
District heat: an attractive investment?
District heat networks are expected to supply a significant proportion of the UK's heating needs, but first the sector needs to attract institutional investment.
Power
Smart metering: gaining early advantage
The smart meter rollout is about to begin. Mike Wilks explains what distribution network operators need to be doing now to gain early advantage from the resulting deluge of data.
Power
UKPN completes £27 million power tunnel
UK Power Networks has finished work on a new electricity ‘superhighway’ beneath London.
Heat
Understanding EFR
Just how valuable is National Grid's new frequency response service to the future energy system? Andrew Howe explores.
Gas
Editor’s weekly: Brexit should spur industry collaboration
Network editor Jane Gray deliver’s the first weekly overview of trends, events and news in the gas, power and heat network community.
Power
DSR is the future of balancing, not crisis management
One year has passed since National Grid launched its demand-side response (DSR) campaign, Power Responsive. Marking the anniversary, Network speaks to the company’s director of UK system operator, Cordi O’Hara, about what the campaign has achieved so far and what is still to come.
Gas
Network Asset Performance Conference
The Network Asset Performance Conference is the leading event for asset and operations leaders looking to enhance asset performance and mitigate risk in energy networks.
Gas
Ukraine: learning from the cyberattack
Andrew Wadsworth says last year’s cyberattack on the Ukraine electricity supply has lessons for all users of operational technology.
Gas
Smart energy dynamics: language and modelling methodologies
After the Brexit vote, UK networks have a once in a generation opportunity to advance a whole system methodology for smart energy, says Duncan Botting.
Power
Fight crime with a culture change
Russ Madley explains why energy networks are in desperate need of a culture change
Power
Local balancing is ‘dangerous’, warns Italian TSO
Allowing distribution system operators to balance at a local level would be “dangerous”, the Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna warned delegates at the international conference Renewable Energy World last week.