Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has joined the electricity industry in its commitment to ‘flexibility first’ as it supports the transition to a smarter electricity system.
Funding approved for industry-led Optimise Prime project to test the end-to-end impacts of the rollout of commercial electric vehicles and develop innovative solutions to accelerate the EV transition.
As the industry goes through a period of rapid transformation, Richard Hartshorn, SSEN’s EV Readiness Manager discusses the shift to decarbonise transport, and the vital role network operators must play on the road to a low carbon future.
The energy regulator has hailed the ‘exceptional performance’ of Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ My Electric Avenue project, awarding the network operator a discretionary reward of £300,000 from its Low Carbon Networks Fund.
Artificial intelligence could help predict and prevent power cuts before they happen using new technology being developed by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks in collaboration with UK Power Networks.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks and Balfour Beatty have successfully energised the connection for Dorenell wind farm in Moray. The wind farm connection, which will add capacity for a further 220 MW of renewable energy to the GB transmission system, has seen the deployment of composite poles, the first time this innovative technology has been used on the GB transmission system.
Following a recent fault that occurred on SSEN’s Orkney network, which is home to the world’s first Active Network Management scheme, SSEN put into practice its ‘learning by doing’ principle, successfully maintaining export access to its flexible generation customers to allow Orkney’s ANM renewable generators to continue to generate, helping to maintain the operation of the network despite the network fault.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has today published the response to its consultation on Managed Electric Vehicle Charging, highlighting proposed solutions to help ensure a smooth transition to electric vehicles (EVs) which avoids potential overloads on local electricity networks caused by sharp increases in the use of EVs.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has entered into a partnership with Williams Advanced Engineering to design a functional specification for the first live overhead line inspection robot to be used on SSEN’s high voltage electricity networks.
Customers in the north of Scotland and central southern England can now report power cuts and network damage directly to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, through the launch of a new and innovative app.
