An app developed by the Centre for Sustainable Energy has been deployed in 12 substations and is providing data to the seven community groups involved in the OpenLV trial. It is expected that further apps developed by businesses participating in the project will be deployed before the end of 2018. OpenLV is a ground-breaking project […]
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The OpenLV project is trialling a new platform in substations called LV Cap; 69 of these LV Cap platforms have now been installed out of a total of 80 to be used by the project. As part of the OpenLV project, the software will be installed in 80 Low Voltage (LV) distribution substations located in […]
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The OpenLV project had a presence at the 2018 Low Carbon Networks Innovation (LCNI) Conference in Telford which took place on 16 & 17 October. Western Power Distribution displayed an LV Cap device on its stand, the platform that is utilised by OpenLV, and this attracted significant interest at the event. There was also a […]
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The OpenLV project is trialling an open software platform called LV-CAP™ that can monitor asset performance and electricity demand and implement active management if necessary in electricity substations. This ‘intelligent platform’ is capable of communicating with other LV-CAP™ devices and enabling substations to temporarily link with those nearby to increase or release capacity through active […]
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OpenLV has been presented at CIRED, Slovenia, through the writing of a paper, and a poster session, achieving international dissemination about the ground-breaking project. There were around 400 attendees from 33 countries, ranging from Japan to the US, with 223 papers being accepted at the conference from 406 submitted. Richard Potter, OpenLV Project Manager, who […]
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Business and community competition winners have been selected as part of a ground breaking trial that will provide access to open data on local electricity networks. The winning innovation ideas could have a real impact on the future of local networks while providing benefits to a wide range of users. The OpenLV project selected […]
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The OpenLV project has been featured in the April 2018 edition of Energy World. The article explains how the OpenLV project is trialling an open software platform in electricity substations that can monitor substation performance and electricity demand. The LV-CAP™ platform is designed to integrate with third party products to enable network control and automation, […]
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OpenLV ran a workshop on 13 February in Bristol for businesses and academia interested in taking part in the project. The aim of the event was to provide more information about the technology and the commercial arrangements involved in OpenLV. Over 30 delegates attended, with the main questions focused on the technical aspects of OpenLV […]
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A unique opportunity will end on 28 February 2018: the ability for businesses to apply to be part of the OpenLV project, and be the first to have access to live, open electricity data. Businesses are currently invited to engage with the OpenLV project with ideas about how they could use data from local electricity […]
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IBM is holding an internal global competition to invite ideas about how to use live data from local electricity networks that the OpenLV project will be providing. Currently, electricity network operators have limited information about power flows on local electricity networks. This can act as a barrier to the installation and operation of, for example, […]
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