Optimising regional clusters of smart electricity networks

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)

Applied Research and Development
Final stage Development and Demonstration

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
Encraft Limited

Collaborative Research & Development

Innovate UK

01 May 2015

30 April 2016

12 months

£191,282

West Midlands

Competition Call: 1405_CRD_ENE_GEN_ENCATESR1 - Not Available. Activity Energy Catalyst Rnd 1 Early Stage

Project Contact, Encraft Limited

Project Contact, E2E Services Limited
Project Contact, Wolverhampton City Council
Project Contact, EA Technology Limited

Project Contact, Sch of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University

The project aims to reduce energy costs and improve security of energy supply for customers by making it easier for communities in cities and towns to optimise their own energy system before calling on the National Grid. This will be achieved by a new kind of local network control system, located at substations across participating localities. The benefits to the national system are reduced demand on the central control system. The benefits to localities are scope for them to make more efficient use of distributed generation assets (solar, wind etc) and potential to realise greater value from demand management approaches and technologies. This is an early stage project to demonstrate technical feasibility and subsequent pilots and commercial deployments are expected to result in a highly scaleable and exportable technology solution, providing a platform wider adoption of low carbon distributed energy technologies nationally.The project aims to reduce energy costs and improve security of energy supply for customers by making it easier for communities in cities and towns to optimise their own energy system before calling on the National Grid. This will be achieved by a new kind of local network control system, located at substations across participating localities. The benefits to the national system are reduced demand on the central control system. The benefits to localities are scope for them to make more efficient use of distributed generation assets (solar, wind etc) and potential to realise greater value from demand management approaches and technologies. This is an early stage project to demonstrate technical feasibility and subsequent pilots and commercial deployments are expected to result in a highly scaleable and exportable technology solution, providing a platform wider adoption of low carbon distributed energy technologies nationally.The project aims to reduce energy costs and improve security of energy supply for customers by making it easier for communities in cities and towns to optimise their own energy system before calling on the National Grid. This will be achieved by a new kind of local network control system, located at substations across participating localities. The benefits to the national system are reduced demand on the central control system. The benefits to localities are scope for them to make more efficient use of distributed generation assets (solar, wind etc) and potential to realise greater value from demand management approaches and technologies. This is an early stage project to demonstrate technical feasibility and subsequent pilots and commercial deployments are expected to result in a highly scaleable and exportable technology solution, providing a platform wider adoption of low carbon distributed energy technologies nationally.The project aims to reduce energy costs and improve security of energy supply for customers by making it easier for communities in cities and towns to optimise their own energy system before calling on the National Grid. This will be achieved by a new kind of local network control system, located at substations across participating localities. The benefits to the national system are reduced demand on the central control system. The benefits to localities are scope for them to make more efficient use of distributed generation assets (solar, wind etc) and potential to realise greater value from demand management approaches and technologies. This is an early stage project to demonstrate technical feasibility and subsequent pilots and commercial deployments are expected to result in a highly scaleable and exportable technology solution, providing a platform wider adoption of low carbon distributed energy technologies nationally.The project aims to reduce energy costs and improve security of energy supply for customers by making it easier for communities in cities and towns to optimise their own energy system before calling on the National Grid. This will be achieved by a new kind of local network control system, located at substations across participating localities. The benefits to the national system are reduced demand on the central control system. The benefits to localities are scope for them to make more efficient use of distributed generation assets (solar, wind etc) and potential to realise greater value from demand management approaches and technologies. This is an early stage project to demonstrate technical feasibility and subsequent pilots and commercial deployments are expected to result in a highly scaleable and exportable technology solution, providing a platform wider adoption of low carbon distributed energy technologies nationally.

08/10/15