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Operation of storage in network constraint management

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Presentation
  • Session
  • Thursday, 04 June 2015
  • 14:4 - 14:4
  • Duration: 38 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Jun 2015
  • Location: NA, America Square Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Energy Storage 2015

About the session

: The development of energy storage is vital to the sustained operation of the UK’s busy grid network, carbon grid and transport system, maintaining supply and bridging the gap in peak conditions.

Find out in greater detail how energy storage is deployed the GB system and what the current landscape is for this technology.

You will hear from industry leaders who will examine and explore the impact on infrastructure including standards and the new RIIO regime, the practicalities and technical issues of storage with an overview of what we can expect from storage in the future taking into consideration technology development, the changes in the value of storage and using storage to supply new services.

Keywords:
  • battery
  • distribution
  • networks
  • peak shaving
  • power
  • storage

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Speaker

  • Nick Heyward

    Nick Heyward

    Smarter Network Storage, UK Power Networks, Project Directoe

    Nick has been involved in technical innovation and research since 2003 across a range of different fields, from video processing and compression, to UK-tech, renewables & clean-tech industry research for a FTSE 100 corporate finance organisation.Now currently in the innovation arm of UK Power Networks, the UK’s largest distribution network operator; Nick has led a portfolio of projects covering smart grid communications, asset tracking and grid-scale energy storage. Most recently, Nick heads up the Smarter Network Storage project, leading a team which has designed and installed one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage systems to explore the economics of optimised operation of storage on distribution networks.
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