Assessing future heat options
The Chancellor has announced that there will be an end of fossil-fuel heating systems in all new homes from 2025, as part of a ‘Future Homes standard’.
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Technology Operations
Asset management strategies are changing
Ageing infrastructure is a problem for most utilities and understanding where to spend capital and maintenance budgets is an art rather than a science. Utilities can change this and optimise their spending by building data science into their asset management strategies.
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Asset management: moving from reactive to proactive
Partly down to cost, partly complexity, identifying faults and flaws in transmission and distribution, has been in response to their occurrence.
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Automation technology reduces length of power cuts
The country’s biggest electricity distributor UK Power Networks has invested in state-of-the-art control systems that redirect power supplies quickly when power cuts happen.
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Awareness campaign boosts priority services enquiries by 148%
The campaign appeared more than 4.5 million times on key regional news websites across the electricity distributor’s operating area and called on viewers to think of people in their life who would benefit from extra support during power cuts.
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Batteries installed in 100 homes as part of local energy trial
The £19 million Local Energy Market trial has been developed to support the stability of Cornwall’s grid, which is increasingly constrained due to the high penetration of renewables in the county.
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Anesco reveals plans for UK’s largest battery portfolio
The energy company intends to enter the portfolio for prequalification in the capacity market over the summer ahead of the next auction in December.
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Anesco unveils plans to quadruple battery storage
The Reading-based renewables developer currently commands a 22% share of all operational utility scale storage units in the UK and 47% of the non-EFR capacity.
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Applications for £320m HNIP funding invited
The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funded scheme will invest capital funding in heat network projects, offering a substantial opportunity to assist the UK in achieving a clean and cost-effective transition towards a low carbon economy.
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Apprentices start work at UK Power Networks
The network operator’s latest group will be training to work on underground electricity cables and substations. They follow hot on the heels of a summer intake, many of whom are preparing to work at height, repairing and maintaining overhead power lines.
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