OpenLV webinars You can now find out what the three-year OpenLV project has learnt by watching recordings of two webinars held earlier this month, an animation, and five videos about the project. There’s also a Community Guidebook and a final report brochure. The first webinar discussed ‘Electricity Networks & Distributed Intelligence’, when the technical benefits […]
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As the OpenLV project draws to a close, there will be a presentation about its achievements at the Energy Networks Innovation Conference (formerly LCNI) on 9 December in the ‘Electricity: Consumer vulnerability and community engagement’ session from 13.00 – 14.30, delivered by Sam Rossi Ashton from Western Power Distribution (WPD). The presentation – which will […]
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There’s now a brilliant way to find about OpenLV in just three minutes, by watching an animated video about the project. The animation summarises what the project has achieved, what the project’s legacy is, and what the future could look like. OpenLV ‘opened up’ data from electricity substations for the first time by trialling a […]
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OpenLV has produced a project summary brochure, ‘The benefits of open source distributed intelligence’. The brochure provides an outline of what the project achieved during the three-year trial. The publication provides an overview of the enabling technology, LV-CAP® , trialled in 80 low voltage substations across the Midlands, South West and Wales, and how it can […]
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OpenLV has released the final video in a series of five, ‘Enabling Net Zero Aspirations’. Distributed intelligence in low voltage substations has the potential to be a key enabler to help net zero targets to be achieved, by opening up data from local electricity networks which can then be used to provide a range of […]
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The OpenLV trial is sharing its learning through two free webinars; the second and final webinar, ‘Making LV Network Data Openly Available’, takes place at 2pm on Thursday 26 November 2020. This webinar will explain what happened when we offered the data from distributed intelligence LV-CAP™ platforms to community organisations, businesses and academia – what […]
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The OpenLV ‘Business and Academia’ video provides a snapshot of some of the projects that have taken place with a range of businesses and academic organisations, and the benefits that are possible from accessing local electricity data. The OpenLV platform has been using EA Technology’s LV-CAP™ platform to host participants’ apps and make data available […]
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Seven communities have taken part in the OpenLV project with the aim of using data from local substations to engage residents in energy issues. OpenLV’s Community Involvement video looks at how community organisations have interacted with OpenLV data. Sam Rossi Ashton, Western Power Distribution’s OpenLV Project Manager, says that the OpenLV platform has empowered communities […]
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The OpenLV trial has finished, and learning about the project is now being shared, including through two free webinars. The first webinar – taking place at 2pm on Tuesday 17 November – looks at ‘Electricity Networks & Distributed Intelligence’, when we will be explaining the technical benefits of distributed intelligence platforms, such as the LV-CAP™ […]
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OpenLV has released a video entitled ‘Network Benefits’ – the second in a series of short films about the ground-breaking project that has been making local electricity data openly available. The video features interviews with project partners and participants where they describe what the outcomes of the project could mean for local electricity networks. Decentralised […]
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