Decc’s key responsibility is making sure our families and businesses have the certainty of secure, affordable and clean energy supplies. For this very reason, I want the UK to vote to stay in the EU on 23 June – because it helps to deliver these objectives as well as helping us to tackle climate change more effectively.
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As the low-carbon energy market continues to develop, network operators will need to know a lot more about what is happening on their systems. New Thames Valley Vision (NTVV), a Low Carbon Networks Fund (LCNF) project led by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), has looked at how this can be done.
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When chancellor George Osborne launched the National Infrastructure Commission in the autumn of last year, it had been a long time coming.
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The company has also urged ministers to maintain support for innovation and avoid “unnecessary restrictive regulation” following the release of a green paper on the policy by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
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Mention the term microgrid, and most people tend to think of providing access to power on remote islands or in poorly served regions in developing markets. But recent developments are highlighting a big potential role for microgrids in mature power markets, including the UK, where it’s becoming clear that new ways of thinking about power supply capacity, stability and resilience are needed.
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Networks are under pressure to create the energy system of tomorrow today, and by March 2017, the environment in which they strive to do so, may have changed significantly.
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The new functions will be “clustered” around issues arising from big data and changes in the end use of the power system said Dr Simon Harrison, chair of the Future Power System Architecture (FPSA) project and chair of the Energy Policy Panel at the Institution for Engineering and Technology (IET).
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The “aggressive timescale” for automation of the low voltage network reflects ENW’s commitment to turning innovation findings from Ofgem-funded projects into business as usual, said Martin Cawson, Network Management System (NMS) programme manager at ENW.
ENW to automate 100% of LV network by 2018 Read More »
The new partnership between the innovation centre and the trade body was signed in front of 100 guests at the official opening of the Energy Systems Catapult offices in Birmingham last week.
Energy Systems Catapult and Beama formalise joint working Read More »
