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Smart meters form the foundation of the utility sector’s digital transformation. But what has the industry learnt about how to use the vast quantities of data at their disposal?

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The UK’s success in cutting carbon emissions by 38% since 1990 has been largely driven by the decarbonisation of electricity. However, there remains a huge amount of work to do to decarbonise industry, heat and transport and achieve the government’s net-zero commitment by 2050.

This is a challenge faced by governments around the world, but there is a solution that the UK is in an ideal position to pioneer – green hydrogen and green hydrogen-based fuels. Read more

Ready or not, disruption has come to the energy world

The modern utility has to embrace innovation and shake off the conservative, cautious strategies of yesterday. Digital transformation is turning traditional business models upside down, with formerly lucrative markets squeezed and new value chains popping up as customer behaviour evolves.

Start-ups, like teenagers who baffle their parents with their seemingly instinctive knowledge of how to work a smart TV, are dragging utilities into the digital age with their more nimble structure and better grasp of new technologies. But policy and regulation are still mired in the vestiges of the previous ...

One of the key principles underlying Competitiveness and Value Creation is investment in key infrastructure and in those projects that strengthen our ability to compete favourably in international markets. 

By ensuring the hard infrastructure such as a secure energy supply, ports, roads, rails, airports, broadband as well as the soft infrastructure, a region or nation will attract investment, generate value creation, support economic growth and improve the quality of life for its citizens. 

While NIE Networks have the responsibility to ensure that the electricity grid is functional and well maintained, Eirgrid & SONI are responsible for operating the transmission system so ...

The CEER public consultation document on Guidelines of Good Practice for Flexibility Use at Distribution level (C16-DS-29-03) explores the role of DSOs in facilitating greater flexibility on the energy system. It sets out a draft advice for regulatory authorities on how to improve flexibility at the distribution level of the electricity network, where it is deemed economically viable, does not unduly distort markets and competition and delivers benefit to consumers.

CEER aims to collect feedback from stakeholders in order to define Guidelines of Good Practice (GGP) that will aid National Regulatory Authorities in their design of regulatory frameworks to facilitate ...

The well-known Smart Grids Week Austria has been implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and Climate and Energy Funds together with cooperation partners from the energy industry and industry for more than 10 years, making it one of the most traditional and renowned experts in the energy and technology community. In fact, the event format has already grown beyond itself and is increasingly concerned with the design of a future-oriented and infrastructure-spanning energy system. The new title "Smart Energy Systems Week Austria - SESWA" is to be taken into account.

At the center of Smart Energy ...

A collaboration involving some of the biggest names in energy has thrown its support behind the proposed installation of the second North South electricity interconnector.

SmartGridIreland, whose members include General Electric, ESB, Glen Dimplex, NIE Energy, Power NI and Siemens, says that it is a critical and strategically urgent transmission reinforcement for the island of Ireland.

The organisation says that a second interconnector is essential to facilitating sufficient transfer capacity to move electricity to the point of demand at the lowest possible cost.

Paddy Turnbull of General Electric and Chairman of Smart Grid Ireland said that the commissioning of a ...