Connecting innovative technologies
We said we would run a technical workshop on connecting new and innovative technologies.
“A very informative event which has given food for thought for our approach to clients in the NPg area. All the NPg staff at our table were very willing to listen and entered into wide ranging discussions.”
Reuben Parry, AMERESCO
With the technological landscape developing and evolving all the time, we acknowledge the importance of being able to adapt our services, processes and policies to help our customers connect new and emerging technologies to our network.
Applications to connect innovative technologies to our network increased by 80% in 2016/17, with this is mind, we committed to run a technical workshop for our stakeholders exploring all aspects of connecting innovative technologies including energy storage, ANM, export limiting devices and other technologies to our network.
We appreciate the importance of having ongoing and open dialogue with our customers about emerging technologies and our adoption policies; and with this in mind, we invited stakeholders to a technical workshop in March 2017. This event was an open discussion designed to help our customers better understand the technical principles involved in connecting new technologies to our network whilst providing us with more information on the emerging technologies they thought would be beneficial to them.
More than 200 of our most active generation and storage customers were invited and in total, 22 delegates from 18 companies attended on the day. Topics covered included energy storage, flexible connections, constraints on the Northern Powergrid network and the
tools available to customers to help them identify available network capacity.
The workshop was led by our Senior Asset Management Engineer, David van Kesteren with support from Mark Nicholson, Head of Smart Grid Implementation.
During the event we discussed export limiting schemes and the technical challenges of connecting storage. There were also updates on our first replicable ANM scheme in Driffield and a ground-breaking trial involving Northern Powergrid, Moixa and Energise Barnsley designed to demonstrate how clusters of home batteries can increase capacity on the electricity network and enable more homes to install solar panels.
Delegates’ comments and feedback were fed into our on-going stakeholder engagement process for ICE. and 100% of delegates who responded said they were very satisfied or satisfied by their experience on the day.
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