Our Story

Our mission is to promote the development of resilient, accessible, low-cost energy networks globally, accelerating the transition to energy decarbonisation. It’s in our DNA and we are passionate about it!

We educate and facilitate the introduction of low carbon technologies and work collaboratively with regulators, organisations and partners to manage the effects of climate change. We make it our business to deliver innovative solutions to operators of power networks globally as well as helping accelerate progress towards clean growth, adaption and resilience of energy networks.

As we continue our transition to Net Zero, data, particularly from the low voltage networks is a key enabler. This data is crucial to decisions about the optimum locations to site renewable generation, Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers and battery storage as well as other network connection requests.

In partnership with SP Energy Networks, the distribution network operator responsible for the local area, this project has installed our VisNet® Hub technology in 673 substations across Cheshire’s Energy Innovation District. We believe that this initiative will make the area the most monitored Low Voltage electricity network in the world.

The Challenge

The main challenge about this project has been to communicate it clearly and articulate why the data is of interest. Decarbonisation necessitates greater electrification, and a move away from fossil fuels. To achieve this by 2050 it requires increased efficiency and making the best use of existing capacity on the electricity network before reinforcement is required.

But we also want to generate interest in the electricity system. We have tried to make the data easily understandable and to explain why some of the load curves from some substations differ from others depending on the customers it serves.

Our Solution

Delivering Network Visibility is making Low Voltage electricity network data available to anyone who may be interested. The network data that this project is making available can help energy generation and storage investors interested in identifying capacity constraints to inform location selections. It also helps energy consumers researching opportunities for demand side measures; such as reduced EV charging, deferred space heating, and management of battery storage solutions. It provides traders with local energy markets for trading variable loads with variable generation within the sub region and allows EV ChargePoint installers and operators to locate new sites.

Our VisNet Hub platforms, devices or stations will provide near real-time data from monitored substations. The data provided can be real-time or historical for all or just some of the monitored substations. As well as load, it includes most other useful parameters.

Whether you are a planner, developer, community organisation, academic or interested in electricity networks, we think this data will help you.

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