Integrel – Baseline Implementation | NIA_NPG_017

Reference: NIA_NPG_017

Status: Live

Start Date: Jul 2017

End Date: Apr 2019

Funding Licencee(s): Northern Powergrid

Contact: Chris Goodhand, Innovation Manager (01977 605641)

Funding Mechanism Network Innovation Allowance

Research Area: None

Core Technology(ies): Energy Storage and Demand Response

Estimated Expenditure: £400,000.00

Introduction: The project includes the assessing the possibility of integration of technology subcomponents – including generation, electricity to hydrogen conversion and storage alongside determining the optimal operational configurations under various scenarios and determining the accompanying economic case.

Objectives:

The project will assess the technical viability of a cross-vector integrated energy system, specifically including:

Gas to Electricity conversion
Electricity to Gas conversion
Energy storage
Gas storage

The project will assess the technical viability of a suitable control system for such an integrated system.

The project will assess costs and forecast benefits to establish a level of economic viability for such an integrated system.

Expected Benefits: A successful project will provide positive or negative assessment of the objectives laid in in the previous section : can the identified technologies be used together and in what combinations, is there an economic case for doing so and could our GUS system be successfully applied to control this.