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Enabling the smart grid

Features, Gas, Power, Technology Operations / aaliyah.murphy

Government demands for decarbonisation, a changing energy landscape of renewables, demand-side response, battery storage, the growth of electric vehicles and advances in digital technology require the use of innovative tools and techniques. These include: IoT, web-based customer self-service, blockchain, geospatial and even space-based technologies such as Earth Observation to enable the transition of distribution network operators (DNOs) to distribution system operators (DSOs) and the creation of the smart grid.

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Editor’s weekly: Asset performance is an innovation priority

Features, Technology Operations / aaliyah.murphy

It’s difficult to know where to start with innovation, especially when your sector is in the throes of change which reaches both broadly and deeply into operations and market structures. When almost every aspect of your business is challenged, how do you prioritise work on transformation and adaptation?

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Editor’s weekly: Brexit should spur industry collaboration

Features, Gas, Heat, Power, Technology Operations / aaliyah.murphy

You’ll forgive me for starting this first round up with a few thoughts on Brexit and its undoubtedly enormous implications for all parts of British society and industry – including networks.

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Editor’s weekly: EFR winners and losers

Features, Policy Regulation / aaliyah.murphy

The champagne is no doubt still flowing at the eight energy storage providers who landed contracts with National Grid’s enhanced frequency response service on Friday 26 August.

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Editor’s weekly: LCNI 2016

Features, Gas, Heat, Power, Strategy Management / aaliyah.murphy

The Low Carbon Networks and Innovation (LCNI) conference, now the energy networks’ de facto event for dissemination of findings from funded innovation schemes, took place last week on Electricity North West’s (ENW’s) patch.

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Editor’s weekly: The department is dead, long live the department!

Features, Heat, Policy Regulation, Power / aaliyah.murphy

In yet another week of political tumult the Department of Energy and Climate change has met its fate and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) has risen glorious from the ashes.

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Editor’s weekly: Who you gonna call?

Customers, Features, Power, Technology Operations / aaliyah.murphy

This week saw the culmination of over two years’ hard collaborative work from the power networks as 105 – the new emergency service for power cut information – went live.

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Editor’s weekly: Political turmoil hampers innovation direction

Features, Heat, Policy Regulation / aaliyah.murphy

Delays to key consultations on the future of the energy system rumble on.

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Editor’s weekly: Smart meters and gas safety

Customers, Features, Gas, People Skills / aaliyah.murphy

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.