asset management
Customers
Networks specialist joins free UW asset data webinar
Dan Wilson, asset data manager and Network Management System Data Lead at Electricity North West, will join the line up on Utility Week's forthcoming webinar on using AI technology to improve asset data.
Gas
Unlocking asset infrastructure
The UK's energy networks are under mounting pressure to accommodate new and increasing demands. From regulatory restrictions and the uptake of distributed generation to the increase in electric vehicles and renewable energy solutions, the challenges for existing asset infrastructure are varied and complex. Nadine Buddoo reports.
Power
Using asset replacement to improve power reliability
Jonathan Hopkins, EMEA sales director at S&C Electric Company, discusses the importance of replacing ageing assets.
Gas
Network Asset Performance Conference 2019
The 2019 Network Asset Performance Conference will bring together leaders from gas & power to help tackle network asset challenges head on. The conference will consist of a range of presentations, case studies and interactive panel sessions and will address how networks can continue to improve asset resilience, the impact RIIO-2 will have on asset management, the importance of data optimisation and how performance can be maintained through the increased introduction of electric vehicles.
Power
Reclaiming and recognising asset management
In an ever-changing energy system landscape, the ability to manage assets is often high up on the agenda for utility companies. During a roundtable event - organised by Network in association with Siemens - key figures from the industry met to discuss asset management. Adam John reports.
Power
Utility asset management: it’s time for a rethink
Fugro's game-changing Virtual World Asset Management (VWAM) platform is transforming how power infrastructure owners monitor the environmental context and condition of their assets. Robert Hoddenbach, global director power, explains.
Gas
Wales & West Utilities receives asset management accreditation
Wales & West Utilities has been recognised for its pursuit of high-quality standards in the asset management field.
Technology & Operations
Taking a whole-system approach
Pete Massey, founder and director of Upcurve Limited, discusses the benefits of taking a whole-system approach.
Gas
Making the most of your assets
How do you pave the way for predictive asset management and how should it be used to help enable the smart networks of the future? A recent roundtable discussion hosted by Network and IBM sought to discover the answers. Tom Grimwood reports.
Technology & Operations
Transformer failure impacts business continuity, research finds
Research carried out by MIDEL reveals the significant threat posed when a transformer fails, and a high level of concern about a failure's impact on fire safety and business continuity.
Power
The data revolution for asset management
Data is already shaping our world, but how we use it could revolutionise asset management. Phil Dingle, marketing director at Lucy Electric, discusses the issue.
Technology & Operations
Network Asset Performance Conference 2018
The 2018 Network Asset Performance Conference addressed how networks can mitigate risk and better monitor assets; adopt innovative strategies in the supply chain; prepare for transport decarbonisation; and optimise data to transform asset management. Find out what this year's sponsors had to say about the event.
Technology & Operations
Asset management strategies are changing
Utilities have long used a cycle-based maintenance approach to asset management, including activities such as inspections, refurbishments and replacements. This industry insight from Nokia looks at how their approach is changing.
Gas
Managing your assets
Randolph Brazier, head of innovation at the Energy Networks Association (ENA), discusses using a whole system approach to asset management.
Power
ENW using helicopters to inspect overhead pylons
Electricity North West has started a new project using helicopters to inspect the overhead electricity pylons across the North West.
Technology & Operations
Looking after your assets
As UK network companies start to develop optimised business plans for RIIO2, Pete Massey, founder and director of Upcurve Limited, looks at how French transmission system operator RTE adopted a new and holistic way of thinking to drive its asset management strategies.
Gas
Network Asset Performance conference
The 2018 Network Asset Performance Conference well help set out the path for asset management strategy and enhancing operational performance as we move towards the business end of planning for RIIO-2.
Gas
Urban energy rhythms
Data allows us to understand depreciation, asset health, how the asset is used, how frequently the asset is used and how and when it should be maintained writes Kim Faithful-Wright, a technology BDM at Costain and Phil Proctor, an operations manager at Costain in the power sector.
Gas
Wales & West using specialist GPS technology
Innovative GPS technology that can be used to capture gas pipe data is being used by Wales & West Utilities.
Power
Drones take off in wind sector
Aerial inspection company Cyberhawk has reported strong growth in the last 12 months following "impressive" demand from the wind sector.
Customers
SSEN to create 3D overhead lines model
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has revealed plans to create a detailed 3D visualisation of its overhead lines networks to enhance resilience and maintenance efficiency.
Power
SSEN invests £150m to prepare networks for winter
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has so far invested £150 million to strengthen its network in the north of Scotland and central southern England ahead of winter.
Power
Northern Powergrid invests £14m in smart technology
Northern Powergrid has invested £14 million in new technology which will allow it to locate the cause of a power cut and restore electricity supplies more efficiently.
Technology & Operations
NGET aims to increase OHL river crossing height
National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is aiming to increase the clearance height of overhead lines crossing river spans by five meters by installing semi tension insulators.
Heat
Sheffield district heat network refurbished with polymer
Pipework at two district heat networks in Sheffield dating back to the 1970s have been replaced with polymer pipework after a series of leaks.