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Network Resilience (Electricity Distribution) - Paul Jewell

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  • Wednesday, 25 November 2015
  • 11:25 - 11:25
  • Duration: 1 min
  • Publication date: 03 Dec 2015
  • Location: 1B, ACC, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Low Carbon Networks & Innovation Conference 2015

About the session

Minimising disruption to customers, reducing excavations, streetworks, time to reconnect, incident, severe weather preparedness and storms response.

Be at the heart of knowledge dissemination for key projects awarded under the LCN Fund, NIA and NIC funding mechanisms. Subjects being discussed include network resilience, customer engagement, innovation strategies, network performance, energy futures, low carbon energy and big data.

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  • energy
  • innovation
  • low carbon
  • low carbon network
  • technology

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    Paul Jewell

    Western Power Distribution, Policy Manager

    Paul has worked in the electricity industry since graduating in 1988. He joined the South Western Electricity Board in thenationalised industry, and has experienced the changes through privatisation and separation. He remains with his originalemployer, now Western Power Distribution and part of the NYSE listed PPL group. Paul trained as an operational engineer andexperienced all aspects of distribution network maintenance, replacement and construction. In 1995 he became a DistributionManager and was responsible for service delivery and operations and performance in a geographical patch which covered mostof Devon. In 2011 Paul left his operational roots to take up responsibility as Policy Manager for WPD. The role is key to WPD’sapproach to innovation as it brings together the work of the Future Networks Team with the more traditional elements ofmanagement of an electricity distribution network. Paul is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering andTechnology.
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