Decentralised System Resilience

Decentralised System Resilience

Status: Live
Reference: NIA2_SGN0075
Lead Network: SGN
Start Date: 01 January 2025
End Date: 01 April 2025
Budget: £83,979
Funding Mechanism: Network Innovation Allowance
Technology: Asset Management, Community Schemes, Demand Side Management, Distributed Generation, Energy Storage, Gas Distribution Networks, Green Gas, Heat Pumps, Hydrogen, Low Carbon Generation, Resilience
Strategy Theme: Whole energy systems
Collaborating Networks: SGN
Project Partners: White Space Strategy and External Funding-Network Innovation Allowance (NIA)

Abstract

This project constitutes a research study investigating the opportunities for gas network infrastructure to support storage and balancing in a decentralised UK energy system. The research will consider how a decentralised system might look in the UK from now until 2030, and onto 2050. An evaluation will be made of how other countries are approaching decentralisation, identifying examples the UK could draw on. Consideration will be given to how grid balancing will be achieved across various scenarios of peak demand and particular geographic locations in the UK and what challenges and opportunities this presents to gas networks.

This project will lead to a deeper understanding of how decentralised energy systems might look in the UK from now until 2030 and onto 2050. Exploring how other countries are approaching decentralisation will also result in new learning opportunities and examples the UK can draw on. Learning will also result from an identification of the role gas networks could play in supporting storage and balancing.

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