Abstract
UK Power Networks, which operates the capital's electricity network, led the four-year Low Carbon London project to plan for the future energy demands of a sustainable city. This includes new challenges for electricity network operators coming from carbon-cutting distributed generation, electric vehicles, heat pumps and other low carbon technologies. Together these are expected to add substantially to demands on the networks in the future. Twenty-seven reports will be published which reveal findings from cutting-edge trials which involved thousands of Londoners. New smart grid techniques were trialled which make more efficient use of existing capacity on the electricity network, keeping down the future costs of electricity distribution for consumers. The 28.3 million GBP project was funded by customers through Ofgem's Low Carbon Networks Fund and by UK Power Networks. It was carried out with support from 11 partners.
