SuperGen HiDef

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Status: Live

Start Date: Mar 2013

End Date: Unknown

Funding Licencee(s): Western Power Distribution

Contact: WPD Future Networks Team (01332 827446)

Funding Mechanism Innovation Funding Incentive

Research Area: None

Core Technology(ies): Carbon Emission Reduction Technologies

Estimated Expenditure: £4,500,000.00

Introduction: The HiDef programme, funded by the EPSRC, researches the essential elements of a decentralised system that could be implemented over the period 2025 & 2050 to enable all end users to participate in system operation and real time energy markets. It has been structured to support the evidence base relating to key questions of current concern within industrialists, Ofgem and DECC.

Objectives: The HiDef programme has five workstreams:

Decentralised Energy
Decentralised Control
Decentralised Network Infrastructure
Decentralised Participation
Decentralised Policy and Macro Impact Assessment.