Sharing our strategy for ANM

We said we would run a focused session for stakeholders on Active Network Management (ANM).

At our Connections Customer Forum in November 2015, Gunther Woltron from Bio4Gas asked us to provide more information on our plans to roll out of ANM solutions across our network.  We acted on this feedback and committed to run a stakeholder briefing on ANM. In May 2016 we held a focused session on ANM at our Connection Customer Forum. In total, 43 customers from 27 different companies attended the forum, including the customer that made the original request for more information.

ANM is a relatively new and fast moving aspect of network management, which allows us to control the output from an installation at times of peak generation and low network demand, or when the network is operating abnormally and the amount of generation needs to be reduced. In our 2015/16 ICE plan, we committed to help more customers connect to our network by developing ANM connections service offers.

Our ANM solution was deployed on our network in Driffield, East Yorkshire and we have kept customers informed, with updates given at workshops, via webinars, during our engagement events and at our Stakeholder Panel meetings. FAQs are also available on the Northern Powergrid website so that customers have a clear understanding of what constitutes an ANM connection and how to apply.

The processes and systems deployed for our first Driffield ANM solution can be scaled up and replicated across our network as necessary. ANM was on the agenda at our Connections Customer Forums and in response to our customers’ requests; we ran a targeted workshop on connecting innovative technologies in March 2017, which also focused on ANM. 

• Slides from our focused stakeholders session on ANM, May 2016 
• Update from our Connections Customer Forum, November 2017
• Update from our connecting innovative technologies workshop, March 2017
• Frequently asked questions on ANM