Q&A Session UK Power Networks

Session
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
10:12 - 10:12
Duration: 33 mins
Publication date: 15 May 2018
Location: NA, Manchester Central, Manchester, United Kingdom
Part of event Low Carbon Networks & Innovation Conference 2016

About the session

The 2016 Low Carbon Networks & Innovation Conference provides an opportunity to explore the key learnings from electricity and gas network innovation projects. The programme will provide unparalleled networking opportunities in addition to project focused presentations and workshops.

Co-hosted by Electricity North West and taking place at the iconic Manchester Central, the LCNI Conference will be held on 11-13 October 2016. The conference and exhibition will be the UK's must-attend electricity and gas network innovation event for 2016.

Keywords:: control systems

customer service

power electronics

power networks

semi conductor technology

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Speakers

Thazi Edwards

Having completed a master of engineering degree at Imperial College London in 2012, Thazi commenced his career working as a technical safety and risk consultant for major Caspian sea oil and gas projects. In this role he developed recommendations to Operators for safe methodologies and procedures during operations and emergency scenarios through consequence modelling and quantitative risk assessment. Since joining the DNO industry he has been involved in a breadth of business areas from detailed electrical design, network planning, major programme delivery and operational safety through secondment rotations. Since 2013 this included working across a number of innovation projects from advanced LV networks to dynamic transformer ratings and time connections for low carbon technologies. He has coordinated various programmes of deliverables for both technical and commercial workstreams, such activities comprised contract negotiations and stakeholder engagement to design specifications, engineering standards and installation planning. His contributions to the low carbon portfolio include the following projects: Flexible Urban Networks – Low Voltage, Smart Urban Low Voltage Networks, Power Transformer Real Time Rating and Outage Detection.
Ismini Dimitriadou

UK Power Networks
David Boyer

Uk Power Networks, Innovation Manager

David is an Innovation Manager within UK Power Networks, delivering a wide portfolio of smart grid and business improvement projects. He has worked within UK Power Networks for the last six years, working as an engineer in Network Operations and Planning before moving into innovation where he has held Design Authority, Project Manager, and Smart Networks Standards & Policy Lead positions. David has been centrally involved in both delivering smart grid demonstrators and integrating smart solutions into business as usual.David also sits on a range of industry standards working groups and technical forums in order to develop and promote new smart grid policies for inclusion in the UK technical standards, codes of practice, and regulatory strategies, particularly related to demand side response and shared-services, smart grids benefits tracking, and smart metering.
Damien Coyle

Electricity North West, Innovation Project Manager

Damien joined Electricity North West as part of the graduate engineer scheme in 2008. He has a BEng in electrical and electronic engineering from Liverpool John Moores University. As part of his personal development Damien has gained a wide range of experience working in a variety of departments in Electricity North West. Before joining the innovation team in 2013, he worked in operations as a senior authorised fault engineer. Since then he has been involved in a number of innovation projects including C2C, CLASS and more recently Smart Street as the technical lead.
Nigel Jackman

Turbo Power Systems
Thazi Edwards

Having completed a master of engineering degree at Imperial College London in 2012, Thazi commenced his career working as a technical safety and risk consultant for major Caspian sea oil and gas projects. In this role he developed recommendations to Operators for safe methodologies and procedures during operations and emergency scenarios through consequence modelling and quantitative risk assessment. Since joining the DNO industry he has been involved in a breadth of business areas from detailed electrical design, network planning, major programme delivery and operational safety through secondment rotations. Since 2013 this included working across a number of innovation projects from advanced LV networks to dynamic transformer ratings and time connections for low carbon technologies. He has coordinated various programmes of deliverables for both technical and commercial workstreams, such activities comprised contract negotiations and stakeholder engagement to design specifications, engineering standards and installation planning. His contributions to the low carbon portfolio include the following projects: Flexible Urban Networks – Low Voltage, Smart Urban Low Voltage Networks, Power Transformer Real Time Rating and Outage Detection.

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