Digitalising the network
Q: What key advice do you offer operators who are looking to fully digitalise their networks?
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Interview
Dealing with uncertainty
Speaking to me just days after National Grid held a roundtable discussion in association with Network entitled ‘Creating infrastructure policy in an uncertain world’, Brackley is in a reflective mood.
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Decarbonisation driving change at ENW
It’s business as usual. That’s the response I get from Emery when I ask him how challenging it is to run a business that he knows could be sold.
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David Rutherford, chief executive, Power Networks Demonstration Centre
UK energy networks are at a turning point and leaders in the sector have must some big decisions about how they want their companies to be defined in a time of transformation, according to David Rutherford, chief executive of the Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC).
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Cyber security: defending the grid
What’s the potential worst-case scenario for a state-sponsored cyber-attack on our electricity networks?
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Cybersecurity: defending the grid
But just how vulnerable is the grid? Network asked two experts at the Institution of Engineering and Technology: Professor Roger Kemp, IET’s Energy Policy Panel and Ahmed Kotb, IET digital lead.
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Bristol’s bold leap of faith
The months before and after the government’s national-level commitment to pursue net-zero emissions by 2050 has seen a round of target-setting by other administrations and cities: Scotland’s target is net-zero by 2045, with Edinburgh and Glasgow racing to get there first; Leeds and Manchester are both aiming for 2038.
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Blending hydrogen into the gas network
HyDeploy aims to establish the potential for blending hydrogen, up to 20 per cent, into the normal gas supply to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It is working towards a one-year live trial on part of Keele University’s private gas network, starting in 2019.
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An appetite for EVs
The battery network will be the world’s biggest, able to release or absorb two thirds the power of the planned Hinkley C nuclear power plant in response to grid balancing requirements. Network brought together the Pivot Power founders (Matthew Allen, CEO; Michael Clark, CTO; Matthew Boulton, COO) to explore what their plan will mean for the industry.
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