OpenLV is delighted to announce that a number of videos about the project – which has opened up access to local electricity network data – will be launched over the coming weeks. The impacts of the project in the area of Social Responsibility is the theme of the first video to be released, capturing the […]
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The OpenLV project has produced a guidebook to help communities benefit from local electricity data, based on the experiences of the seven community organisations that participated in the trial. The aim is that the guide will be helpful for other community organisations across Great Britain who are interested in participating in similar schemes. The guidebook […]
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An OpenLV Participant Workshop took place at the SS Great Britain in Bristol on 20th November 2019, which brought together partners and participants to share learning from the project. The event looked at the benefits that the trial participants had gained from ‘open’ access to electricity data from substations on local low voltage networks. Such […]
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The Renewable Futures: The Net-Zero Summit, taking place on 27 November 2019 in Bath, brings together industry leaders and policymakers to discuss how we turn net-zero policy commitments into urgent action. The OpenLV Hub This year, Renewable Futures and EA Technology will be hosting an OpenLV Hub, sharing the lessons of the groundbreaking project which […]
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Presentations about the OpenLV project will feature at Western Power Distribution’s Balancing Act Conference, taking place on 26 November 2019 in London. The afternoon sessions will provide an in-depth overview of the OpenLV project, which aims to provide a common, low cost platform that can facilitate the deployment of different apps to suit the needs […]
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The OpenLV project held a participant workshop event on 4th June in Bristol, hosted by EA Technology. Three of the seven community groups taking part in the OpenLV project attended, including recently recruited Yealm Community Energy, along with seven of the businesses/academic participants. OpenLV project partners and suppliers also attended the event including Regen, Centre for Sustainable Energy, NCC and […]
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The final installations of LV-CAP™ devices into low voltage substations as part of the OpenLV project have been completed. This is a huge milestone which has been achieved as a result of the hard work of project partners Western Power Distribution (WPD) and EA Technology. Businesses and universities are continuing to make novel use of […]
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The University of Strathclyde’s Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering has accessed funding through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Acceleration Fund to undertake research into distribution network loading characteristics using data from the OpenLV project. OpenLV presents the opportunity for organisations to access data from Western Power Distribution’s (WPD’s) LV network, […]
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The OpenLV project ran a ‘mid-trial’ community workshop event on 7 March 2019 at Exeter Castle, hosted by Regen. Five of the seven community groups taking part in the OpenLV project attended, along with five businesses/academic organisations that are involved with other OpenLV-related projects. All the workshop attendees agreed that the event provided a useful […]
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The OpenLV project achieved an important milestone at the end of January when LV CAPTM technology in two pairs of substations in the Plymouth area took full autonomous control of load. Low Voltage (LV) networks typically connect customers’ homes to a single transformer situated in a local distribution substation. A mesh configuration allows customers to […]
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