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Transformation in action LiDAR DEployment in SSEN

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 24 May 2017
  • 13:24 - 13:24
  • Duration: 17 mins
  • Publication date: 02 Jun 2017
  • Location: Network Theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility Week 2017

About the session

Transformation is key to utilities survival in today’s challenging environment. The audiences of Utility Week Live’s sister brands, Utility Week, WWT, WET News and Network, have voted for the top ten technologies transforming their industries – and this session will showcase some of the best, with cutting edge technology solutions, game changing IT developments and engineering breakthroughs that will transform roles and organisations.

Keywords:
  • 3D scanning
  • LiDAR
  • SSEN
  • electricity
  • energy
  • gas
  • light detection and ranging
  • power
  • sustainable
  • technology
  • tree management
  • utilities

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  • Stewart Reid

    Stewart Reid

    Scottish and Southern Electricity Network, Head of Asset Management and Innovation

    Stewart has worked in the electricity industry since 1983 and has been involved in managing electricity networks across the UK, in a range of roles including: operations manager, planner, policy engineer and project manager (IT and Power Engineering).Stewart is a Fellow of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.He is now the Head of asset management and innovation, within Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks with the remit of introducing new and better ways of managing the electricity networks, and translating these new ideas into business as usual.A key part of Stewart’s role is as project director for SSEN’s New Thames Valley Vision (NTVV), Northern Isles New Energy Solutions project (NINES) and more recently the first business as usual deployment of a Constraint Managed Zone in the UK (CMZ).These projects include monitoring, active network management, analytics and modelling, frequency responsive demand and some of Europe’s largest embedded energy storage facilities. Converting innovative solutions into business as usual is central to his role, initiatives such as Constraint Managed Zones are allowing solutions like energy storage and demand side management to establish them in the networks market place something that Stewart is passionate about.
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