Flying the line
WPD has been operating helicopters as a company since SWEB (South West Electricity Board) used their first helicopter back in 1963.
Interview
Finding faults
Ofgem figures show that the number of electricity interruptions was above 40 per 100 customers at 11 of the 14 network operators in 2016/17.
Ensuring resilience
The news that President Trump’s administration will keep ailing coal and nuclear plants running in the face of competition from wind, solar and natural gas-fired generation – the White House argues that the plants are essential to national security and the resiliency of the energy system in the US – attracted the ire of environmentalists in June.
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Embracing change
Ofgem’s stakeholder engagement (and consumer vulnerability) incentive is a reward only annual panel assessment which applies to all network companies, across gas and electricity in both distribution and transmission.
Driving innovation forward
“You learn, you change, you adapt and you move forward.” The pace of innovation across the gas and electricity networks is perhaps best summed up by this phrase.
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DSOs and data
Paul Beck, director of smart grid solutions at Lucy Electric, encourages customers to look at not how much data they can collect, but what that data can be used for, and the actions that will result from it. “What is important to DNOs, and in the transition to DSO, is not data, but information,” he says. “You can end up with an awful lot of data – in fact, far more than can be processed. It is extracting the information for analysis that is important.”
DSR is the future of balancing, not crisis management
Q: What are the major milestones the Power Responsive campaign has achieved in its first year?
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Drawing on experience
Vattenfall’s head of business area distribution says the company will draw on its experience in Sweden when starting electrical distribution network operations in Great Britain.
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