Projects
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| Reference Number | ENWT1003 | |
| Title | Low Voltage Network Solutions | |
| 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 Electricity North West Limited |
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| Award Type | Network Innovation Allowance | |
| Funding Source | Ofgem | |
| Start Date | 01 April 2011 | |
| End Date | 01 March 2014 | |
| Duration | ENA months | |
| Total Grant Value | £490,000 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Power | |
| Region | North West | |
| Programme | ||
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Project Contact , Electricity North West Limited |
| Web Site | https://smarter.energynetworks.org/projects/ENWT1003 |
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| Objectives | This project will deploy a range of distributed measurement, sensing and analogue recording instrumentation, which will provide Electricity North West Ltd with greater understanding of the existing operating characteristics and demands of its LV networks and the tools to manage these issues. Electricity North West Ltd will identify a statistically meaningful sample of representative LV network feeders from its total population of over 120,000 feeders, and use these to map the characteristics of the total population. Electricity North West Ltd will use the data to develop planning and modelling tools and techniques, which will be essential to allow DNOs to manage these complex networks more appropriately in the future. The Project will allow Electricity North West Ltd to use and validate the results of WPDs Tier 2 LCNF Low Voltage Template project, for application on Electricity North West Ltds network. | |
| Abstract | The decarbonisation of transport, heating and electricity generation suggest changes in the network requirements of Low Voltage (LV) connected customers. These will introduce significant challenges for the networks from higher and more variable loading. The generic problems associated with changes in demand and generation on the future LV network are well known. What is not clear is when the problems arise, and how DNOs will address these problems in an economic and sustainable way. The potential solutions are expected to comprise new technologies and operating techniques. In order to begin to understand what these changes will mean to networks, network operators will need to measure the existing demand and voltage characteristics of networks at an increasingly granular level, and to develop models which enable them to forecast the effects of future scenarios for the penetration of customers low-carbon technologies. At present, analogue data such as voltage and current is not routinely captured beyond the primary substation level. However, it is expected that as demands increase, it will be the low voltage networks that will experience both thermal and voltage problems ahead of the higher voltage networks. Given this, it is paramount that network operators quickly begin to fill the gaps in their understanding of the characteristics of low voltage networks and assets. | |
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| Added to Database | 15/12/22 | |
