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Working towards a smarter energy system
- Removing barriers, improving price signals and creating a system for the consumer
- Government’s innovation priorities for smart technologies and services
- Next steps
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Supporting innovation in energy networks
- Ofgem’s approach to supporting innovation
- What we learnt from our innovation schemes
- Looking ahead to future price controls
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What the future holds for networks and systems
- Understanding strategic development of the transmission network
- Examining whole system & the transmission/distribution interface
- Operating the future system
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Bringing it all together – a vision for networks and the future energy system
- What we’re trying to achieve – a common goal
- What we can learn from current challenges across the UK & US energy systems
- Building in the future needs of our evolving society
- Working together across the industry to achieve this vision
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A unique whole systems energy model for customers
- Providing whole energy system transparency to support security of supply
- Highlights the consequences of different storage options
- How to support increased renewable electricity generation
- Next steps – integrated home energy
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Creating a new DSO system for the network to work
- Engagement between the DNO and domestic customers – how to use behavioural change to understand the network demand
- Balancing and maximising network capacity – electric efficient heating, EV’s etc.
- Using data to understand loading on the network – maximum loading vs dynamic capacity balancing model
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Panel questions and answers: the drive towards a whole system approach to energy planning
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The good, the bad and the ugly – the impact of decentralised energy resources
- What new technologies are disrupting customer’s energy infrastructure?
- Who are the providers of decentralised energy services and how are they changing?
- How commercial and industrial customers can take advantage of decentralised energy services
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Asset management and performance analytics
- The objectives of enterprise asset performance management
- Your Data in an enterprise-wide platform
- How to improve on asset management
- Enabling developments in your technologies
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Real-time networks – how to adjust your network to accommodate new technologies & customer behaviour
- Cost of gas for customers – reducing the capital costs of assets and passing savings on
- Security of supply – utilising sources and developing a low-carbon solution
- Creating more efficient data capture & downstream renewable technologies
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- All our thoughts on decarbonisation of heat and transport, what role do we play?
- What shape we think our network needs to be – how it needs to evolve
- Policy environment on how to deliver that network
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- Closing the 30 year gap – showing how UK and Danish policies on local energy are converging today
- The UK government’s special offer – 300 million pounds up front to create 2 billion pounds of district heating
- District heating – the unregulated utility: how we can have consumer protection in a deregulated policy agenda.
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Energy solutions for a dynamic future
- The role of providing a meaningful contribution to meeting the challenges of the energy trilemma
- How NGN is working with multiple stakeholders and investing to unlock the potential role of gas and the future of energy networks
- Creating a multi-vector model to achieve balance and collaboration and ensure more sustainable solutions
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How to convert innovation into ‘business as usual’
- Learning from two test cases: LiDAR and Constraint Managed Zones
- Identifying the key differences between an innovation environment and business as usual
- Next steps: from innovation to practice
- How innovation needs to change to adapt to de-centralisation
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