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What do smart meters and demand side response mean for the relationship between networks, suppliers

Session
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
10:00
Duration: 13 mins
Publication date: 05 Jun 2018
Location: Network Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

This session will explore the potential for smart grids, and the extent to which the smart meter rollout paves the way. It will ask what smart networks can achieve and what a fully connected society will look like. Speakers will chart the road map for the smart meter roll out, explore the role of smart meters in enabling smart grids, and outline the challenges and opportunities of the new technologies.

Keywords:: decarbonisation

electricity

electricity distribution

energy

energy system

energy user

smart meter

ssen

Channels

Power

Power

Transport

Transport

Speaker

Stewart Reid

SSEN, Head of DSO 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). He is a Fellow of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.He is the Head of DSO and Innovation, within Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, with the remit of introducing new and better ways of managing the electricity networks, translating these new ideas into business as usual and managing the transition of the business from a Distribution Network Operator (DNO) to a Distribution System Operator (DSO).Key elements of Stewart’s current role include ongoing development and deployment of Constraint Managed Zones, a business as usual funded process for procuring flexibility as a service to manage network constraints while permitting value stacking.Other significant active projects include monitoring, active network management, analytics and modelling, frequency responsive demand, embedded energy storage facilities and the preparation for the large scale uptake of electric vehicles.