Digitalisation

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  • ENTSO-E warns on data centre grid pressure

    ENTSO-E warns on data centre grid pressure

    ENTSO-E has examined data centres as both large loads and potential flexibility assets. Its report sets out grid security risks around rapid demand growth, voltage control, and renewable integration.

  • First Bus uses depots for grid balancing

    First Bus uses depots for grid balancing

    First Bus is using electric depots to support grid balancing. The trial adjusts charging schedules in response to system conditions, giving fleet infrastructure a new operational role in the electricity network.

  • IN Power issue 2 is live!

    IN Power issue 2 is live!

    IN Power’s April issue asks whether the grid is ready. Coverage connects automation, OT cybersecurity, demand flexibility, data centres, autonomous industrial sites, and contracting competence as electrification pressure moves from policy target to operational test.

  • Pure Energie selects Kraken for asset optimisation

    Pure Energie selects Kraken for asset optimisation

    Pure Energie has selected Kraken to manage and optimise wind, solar, battery storage, and customer load across the Netherlands through an integrated energy management platform connected to TenneT.

  • National Grid DSO publishes ten-year network development plan

    National Grid DSO publishes ten-year network development plan

    National Grid Electricity Distribution has published its latest Network Development Plan, setting out a ten-year view of distribution-network development, headroom, constraint management, flexibility, and reinforcement as electricity demand and low-carbon connections increase.

  • ENA develops common flexibility dispatch standard

    ENA develops common flexibility dispatch standard

    Energy Networks Association has developed a common flexibility dispatch standard with Elexon, NESO, and the OpenADR Alliance, using OpenADR 3.1 to support interoperable flexibility services across Britain’s electricity networks.

  • SP Energy Networks launches grid connection tool

    SP Energy Networks launches grid connection tool

    SP Energy Networks and Keen AI have launched IConn, a digital tool designed to speed up early-stage transmission connection assessments by modelling routes, capacity, costs, power flows, and technical constraints in seconds.

  • MFG EV Power activates Plug&Charge across rapid network

    MFG EV Power activates Plug&Charge across rapid network

    MFG EV Power has activated Hubject Plug&Charge across around 2,000 UK rapid and ultra-rapid charge points using ISO 15118 authentication.

  • National Grid expands dynamic line rating rollout

    National Grid expands dynamic line rating rollout

    National Grid is expanding dynamic line rating technology across 585km of transmission routes in England and Wales to increase usable network capacity.

  • Sungrow and Frank Energie advance European VPP aggregation

    Sungrow and Frank Energie advance European VPP aggregation

    Sungrow’s iSolarCloud platform has partnered with Frank Energie to aggregate residential PV and storage assets across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.