Flexibility is key
The portable ‘plug & play’ relay and control rooms provided by design and engineering experts Acrastyle offer just this flexibility, enabling network operators to respond rapidly to changing needs.
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Flexible Networks: Storage & DSR Conference
The conference will explore the drivers for flexibility and set the strategic context, before diving into the detail of operational and technical solutions around storage and DSR, including the latest findings from innovation-funded studies. It will ask how customers and other stakeholders can be engaged in the transition, and will look at the role of flexibility beyond the network, at grid-level.
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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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Enabling the smart grid
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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Drone project begins flight trials on energy network assets
The three-year programme which began in May 2018, coordinated by the EIC, led by Wales & West Utilities in collaboration with Cadent, National Grid Gas Transmission, Northern Gas Networks, Northern Powergrid, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks and UK Power Networks, and supported by Connected Places Catapult, is a UK first and a designated Government Pathfinder Project.
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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.”
Digitalising the network
Q: What key advice do you offer operators who are looking to fully digitalise their networks?
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Dealing with weather events
There is little doubt our weather is becoming more unpredictable and extreme. Last year, we saw widespread snow fall in March when the ‘Beast from the East’ struck, followed by one of the longest heatwaves in living memory over the summer.
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Dealing with data
The decarbonisation of the energy system is driving energy networks to become smarter, more flexible and more closely integrated.
Customers overcharged by £24bn due to regulator error, Citizens Advice claims
Citizens Advice is calling for companies to return some of this to customers through a rebate on their bills and for regulators to stop this happening again.
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