Projects
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| Reference Number | NIA_WPD_060 | |
| Title | Pre-Fix | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Applied Research and Development 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Contact No email address given Western Power Distribution (WPD) - East Midlands |
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| Award Type | Network Innovation Allowance | |
| Funding Source | Ofgem | |
| Start Date | 01 October 2021 | |
| End Date | 31 March 2023 | |
| Duration | ENA months | |
| Total Grant Value | £1,840,963 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Power | |
| Region | East Midlands | |
| Programme | Network Innovation Allowance | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (WPD) - East Midlands (99.997%) |
| Other Investigator | Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (WPD) - South Wales (0.001%) Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (WPD) - South West (0.001%) Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (WPD) - West Midlands (0.001%) |
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| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (0.000%) |
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| Web Site | https://smarter.energynetworks.org/projects/NIA_WPD_060 |
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| Objectives | Over an 18-month project duration, Pre-Fix will deliver a roadmap that will help embed the benefits of pre-fault and disturbance information into operational processes. This project will be delivered using the following work packages:WP1 Specification: This work package records the requirements that must be delivered from all of the systems to be developed within this project.WP2 Design/Development: This work package conducts the deeper design requirement to deliver WP1, including design documentation and operational protocols, which will explain: (i) Deployment and application guidelines; (ii) Design and setting documentation (for permanent fit devices); and (iii) Communication philosophy and requirements.WP3 Build and Install: This work package constructs the systems required to deliver the functionality, installs the trial infrastructure and tests ahead of trial.WP4 Testing: This work package tests the components and system ahead of trials. WP5 Trial: This work package conducts a system trial prove the system requirements in an operational context.WP6 Learning and dissemination: This work packages will encapsulate learning into a manner that could enable further progress towards operational exploitation by WPD and other DNOs. This project seeks to overcome the barriers to wide-spread HV pre-fault capability represented by vendor tie in and proprietary software.This project will utilise HV pre-fault capture capable devices from different manufacturers to demonstrate how they can all contribute into common data platform. This project will also demonstrate how certain existing network devices such as power quality monitors, protection relays and LV monitors might also help contribute to HV pre-fault detection in addition to their basic functions. This project will also show how consistent operational dashboards and reports can be developed from this platform to enable a consistent policy driven approach to be implemented across an organisation. Key activities that will be carried out during the project include:Use of trial data from other DNOs to inform platform design and support testing.Architecture specification for the common information platform.Interoperability specification and setting of pre-fault gathering devices.Design of common operational user interfaces.Live trial of devices, platform and reports. The objectives of this project are to: Develop and validate a process to enable pre-fault capable devices from different manufacturers to contribute information onto the same platform.Develop and validate processs to enable pre-fault information to be drawn out of this platform.Develop and validate standard reports that enable a consistent and effective pre-fault policy driven decision making to be made in an operational environment. | |
| Abstract | Pre-Fix will develop and demonstrate a Common Disturbance Information Platform (C-DIP), allowing equipment from different vendors to be utilised for pre-fault detection and more accurate fault location on HV overhead line and underground cable circuits. The outputs from this project are expected to deliver game-changing performance benefits for the operation of distribution systems across GB in RIIO-ED2 and beyond. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 14/10/22 | |
