Northern Powergrid
Chris Goodhand, Innovation Manager (01977 605641)
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Comms & IT
£230,000.00
A number of issues arising in recent years have tended to increase the
level of network risk, and therefore interruptions in supply including:
- Severe weather conditions are occurring more frequently
- Customer needs and expectations are increasing, particularly at
times of network duress
- Decreasing reliability of an ageing infrastructure
- The additional demands on the network caused by distributed
generation
- Increasing levels of both accidental and deliberate damage
- Increasing utilisation of distribution networks expected over the next
20 years due to increasing penetration of Electric Vehicles (EV) and
domestic heat pumps.
It is essential to contain and mitigate this increased risk by scientific and
accurate evaluation of that risk under different circumstances.
A reliable and acceptable way of measuring the expected network was
developed in the first phase of the network risk project. This second
phase is designed to better understand how to use this knowledge in
real network situations and decision making. The project will then
further develop this knowledge into a set of tools, probably IT enabled,