FACILITIES AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT – LOW CARBON LONDON

LOW CARBON LONDON

“ACTIVE NETWORK MANAGEMENT”

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Low Carbon London – a learning programme using London as a testbed to develop a smarter energy network

A collaboration between UK Power Networks and various partners including Imperial College London, National Grid and EDF Energy

Funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Networks Fund

Part of the Mayor of London’s carbon reduction strategy

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Imperial College has set up a Low Carbon Learning Laboratory to analyse data and share learning from the programme

Part of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor Goran Strbac, Dr Simon Tindemans and Mark Bilton

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Low Carbon Networks 5 Themes

Smart meters

Wind twinning

Demand side management

Electric vehicles and heat pumps

Distributed generation – the Mayor’s target is 25% of electricity and heating from local generation by 2025

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Increased demand on distribution network results in network upgrades. Cost of upgrades passed to customers.

Our CHP engines will be connected to London Distribution Network via “active network management” devices

Result will be “smarter” network with more connections into it

These connections will be microgeneration units like our, with a lower carbon footprint

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Availability payments – when generation capacity is made available to UK Power Networks

Utilisation payments – when the capacity is taken up

Our CHP engines will mitigate overloads at the Duke Street substation in Mayfair

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Progress so far

FM have agreed in principle to the project – contract terms to be agreed

Project team has identified June, July and August as the period when they would utilise 10% of capacity of one engine

Technical phase of the project will now commence, to look at installing the active network management controls

Trials will start in August

Project runs till 2014