Agenda
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The Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan: What does it mean for networks?
- Creating a system that allows disruptive innovation
- Ensuring effective markets and competition
- Working in partnership to deliver change
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Understanding our networks – the road to flexibility
- Enhanced monitoring and control of Distribution Networks
- Unlocking network capacity
- The journey to Distribution System Operators
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The reality of ensuring flexibility across all networks
- Considerations for creating a low-carbon future and tackling climate change
- Addressing technical challenges for flexibility by working collaboratively
- Challenging society’s perception of energy and electricity
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Enabling the flexibility agenda
- Working towards RIIO2
- Implementing flexibility whilst maintaining original systems
- How big is the role of storage in the future of network flexibility?
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Using the gas network for large-scale, flexible storage
- The gas network supporting a flexible, renewable energy future
- The challenges facing alternative storage mediums
- Delivering affordable, secure and sustainable outcomes for customers and supporting the UK economy
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Creating the infrastructure for flexible networks
- How innovative infrastructure is making flexible networks a reality
- The importance of cross-industry digital capability – how to integrate key technologies such as BESS, DERMS and Asset Management software solutions within a seamless ecosystem
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Increasing capacity whilst maintaining service
- What can be learnt from Project CLASS
- Maintaining customer engagement
- Managing customer expectation for the future of the network
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Overcoming barriers for storage integration
- Benefits of grid scale storage co-located with Solar PV
- Connection options for industrial and commercial customers
- Interfacing the grid to the intelligent home network with renewables, storage and EV
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The role of gas in a low-carbon energy future
- Gas and energy storage
- New innovations in the sector
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Integrating DSR & heat networks
- The role of thermal storage in the future of flexibility
- What do stakeholders need to consider?
- What will the flexibility look like?
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Customer flexibility delivering benefits for distribution networks
- Enabling DSO flexibility markets
- Integrating DSR
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How storage & DSR will shape the future of a flexible network
- Reflecting on findings from the New Thames Valley Vision project
- Identifying cost-effective solutions for all networks
- Future collaboration to create flexibility solutions for all networks
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How important is interconnection to the future security of flexibility?
- What is the role that interconnection plays in supporting flexibility?
- Is there an advantage to UK electricity system?
- Will Brexit be important in determining the future of interconnection for the UK
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- How today’s work will create a decarbonised future
- Realising the benefit of investment
- Considering the possibilities of change
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