Live Line Working Equipment

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)

Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
National Grid Electricity Transmission

Network Innovation Allowance

Ofgem

01 August 2010

01 January 2015

55 months

£1,850,000

Power

London

Network Innovation Allowance

Project Contact, National Grid Electricity Transmission

The re-establishment of Live Line working within National Grid. The preliminary Investigation into the project has indicated a high likelihood of success due to evidence of successful implementation by other utilities around the world. This is further enhanced following National Grid’s representation on to the IEC and CIGRE International Live Line working groups (based on IFI project success to date).

The Transmission System is likely to become increasingly constrained over the next 5-10 years, based on forecast constraint costs, new access arrangements, continued asset investment requirements and new generation connections. Live Line working offers significant opportunities in enabling maintenance and defect overhead line (OHL) work to be carried out however significant investment and commitment is required order to re-establish previous Live Line capability and this project is planned to develop and identify the best equipment and working practices to ensure an economic, efficient and effective technology and process. The methods that are proposed for this project are: Identification of potential suppliers for basket and trolley Factory visit to discuss options Delivery of finished helicopter equipment(Specialist Aviation design company has already been identified and discussions around scope undertaken)Delivery of new basket and trolleyNote : Project Documents may be available via the ENA Smarter Networks Portal using the Website link above

31/08/18