Traditionally, options for reclosing on mixed and underground circuits to locate faults have been limited. Mixed feeders are the most difficult to manage for reliability and protection, and they contribute highly to customer interruptions and customer minutes lost. They also are expensive to own and operate. Underground circuits have large numbers of customers, so utilities tend to prioritise repairing them for rapid restoration.
The company has successfully energised the 132kV air-insulated equipment at Loch Buidhe substation as part of the £1.1billion Caithness-Moray project.
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The Northern Ireland Hydrogen Transport project is being led by Irish energy company Energia Group and Translink, Northern Ireland’s public transport operator.
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The network operator has completed work at the Sulgrave Road site for RATP Dev London, to enable 36 new electric buses to charge overnight, with the project representing a major contribution towards reducing pollution.
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UK Power Networks (UKPN) has partnered with charging specialists Ubitricity to trial three EV-charging streetlights to be used by local residents in Onslow Gardens, in a first for Central London.
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Funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles in partnership with Innovate UK, the project will run from January to March 2019 and will investigate the feasibility of deploying wireless charging technology in three live locations across London and Tamworth. The purpose of the study is to understand the impact on infrastructure and the commercial viability of this type of charging. The study will also look at how its future use could reduce costs, improve productivity and safety, and increase the uptake of electric vehicle fleets across the UK.
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RTE, owner of the largest high and extra-high voltage electricity transmission network in Europe, spends more than €800 million on asset management every year. Confronting challenges to arbitrate between maintenance and renewal policies, RTE decision makers realised they needed to create a holistic business plan, allowing them to view the impact of their decisions across multiple systems.
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Populating local energy markets with enough participants to enable services to be bought and sold easily will be “a real challenge”, according to a senior figure at Electricity North West.
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The legal claim, filed in Washington DC by human rights firm International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children, names tech companies Apple, Tesla, Dell, Microsoft and Google as defendants.
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The 1,195 kWh unit forms part of an energy centre being delivered by sustainable energy experts Vital Energi for the 30-acre Paddington Village development, currently under construction at the eastern end of the city centre’s Knowledge Quarter.
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