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Maxine Frerk: Letter from America

Blog, Policy Regulation / aaliyah.murphy

While many readers were engaging with the debates at Utility Week Live earlier this summer, I made the sacrifice and headed to San Jose to pick up on the global trends being discussed at the Grid Edge World Forum. The challenges we face in Great Britain with the transition to a low carbon energy system are clearly global ones and the question that interested me was where was the UK leading and where was it lagging on the world stage.

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Innovating towards a DSO model

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

Over this time, our industry has seen a great deal of development as we have sought to make our networks more responsive and resilient. Our sector has moved from one that was focused on engineering-above-all to one that understands that delivering a reliable and efficient service for its customers should always be its driving force.

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Government must act to prevent energy market civil war

Customers, News, Policy Regulation, Power / aaliyah.murphy

In a report published today, entitled People Power: how consumer choice is changing the UK energy system, the thinktank predicted the falling cost of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles will lead to an explosion in decentralised energy owned by consumers, many of whom will see an advantage in going off-grid.

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Getting regulation right

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

Distribution network operators (DNOs) could meet the challenges of decarbonisation under the current model, one speaker explained. But doing so would be “horrendously expensive”, requiring huge investments in new capacity to meet peaks in demand.

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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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ENA launches project to aid evolution of network roles

Customers, News, Strategy Management / aaliyah.murphy

The ENA marked the close of the government and Ofgem’s call for evidence on a Smart Flexible Energy System by launching its TSO-DSO project to co-ordinate the development of processes, roles and responsibilities to ensure the best models are taken forward.

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ENA reveals roadmap for shift to DSO model

Customers, News, Power, Strategy Management / aaliyah.murphy

The document was produced as part of the association’s open networks project – an industry initiative to establish the future roles and responsibilities of networks, and foster the creation of a smart grid.

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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: Anticipating a call for evidence

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

There’s a looming “back to school” atmosphere as the August lull for business and industry draws to a close.

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DSO concept is a ‘classic British fudge’

News, Policy Regulation / aaliyah.murphy

Policy-makers should instead implement a “distribution service provider” (DSP) model, which would not only see operators balance local networks but also facilitate markets for products and services and dispense data to market participants.

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