North East Partnership Goes Green!
A
partnership of North Eastern companies, Imass and
Econnect, has been awarded a grant of £90,000 by the
Department of Trade and Industry under its Collaborative
Research and Development Technology Programme to
continue their work in the Renewable Energy sector.
With
support from DTI/Ofgem, Imass and Econnect have
successfully completed a £450,000 research project
which delivered secure access to information related to
the UK electricity distribution network and renewable
energy projects via an internet service. The new funding
will support a follow-on project to build on the success
of the research in order to provide a live service
covering the whole of the UK.
Using
advanced internet and GIS technologies, the service
provides access to an accurate view of the current state
of the distribution network and distributed generation
connections, and automates the assessment of connection
opportunities for distributed generation using online
tools.
Imass
and Econnect have proven that the internet service is
capable of reducing the elapsed time taken to assess
connection opportunities from weeks or months to a few
minutes.
Dave
Curry, Project Director, Imass said, “Tools of this
sort will become increasingly important as it becomes
possible to attach more distributed generation to the
network through the development of active network
management techniques.”
The
role of Econnect within the collaboration is to provide
software services including a connection assessment
software tool, as well as providing in-depth electrical
engineering expertise.
Christine
Barbier, Project Manager, Econnect, said:
"Econnect
is already developing leading edge active network
management techniques and this project is a natural
progression for us to provide enhanced services to
developers and other interested parties to help to
promote the integration of increasing amounts of
renewable energy into the grid."
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