Editor’s weekly: the next phase for decarbonisation
The revolution is growing in pace and reach.
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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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Document reveals Labour plan to nationalise energy networks
The document reveals leader Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to bring all energy network companies under public ownership “immediately” following a Labour election win, The Telegraph reports.
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Distributed ReStart project: live trials
The NIC-funded Distributed ReStart project aims to provide a world first by coordinating distributed energy resources (DER) to provide a safe and stable Black Start service in the event of system-wide blackout.
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Decentralisation – unlocking the key to the future network
Put simply, a decentralised energy network is one that instead of running centrally, through the National Grid, is produced locally to where it will be used. This is achieved through the forming of microgrids which can generate and store energy locally, maximising on efficiencies whilst reducing transmissions losses and minimising carbon emissions with the added benefit of relieving pressure from the National Grid.
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Dedicated distributed energy desk setup by National Grid
In the first 24 hours of operation, the number of bids and offers accepted by the control room from these aggregated providers was 87MWh, up 113% on average.
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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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Cutting the cost of the networks
Over the past year the Somerset coast has become a hive of activity where the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is being built, on one of the largest construction sites in Europe.
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Cyber safety warning over UK’s energy infrastructure
Over the weekend national media reported that National Grid was contacted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – an arm of intelligence agency GCHQ – which advised it on how to increase its guard against criminally-instigated power cuts.
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CLASS project adopted by National Grid
The region’s power network operator developed a system to reduce demand for electricity from its control room in central Manchester, without anyone noticing a difference to their power supply. The system helps to cut bills, reduce carbon emissions and balance the national grid when needed.
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