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Innovation Highway - Phase 2

  • Status: Live
  • Reference: NIA2_SGN0100
  • Lead Network: SGN
  • Start Date: 01 August 2025
  • End Date: 01 February 2026
  • Budget: £453,200
  • Funding Mechanism: Network Innovation Allowance
  • Strategy Theme: Whole energy systems
  • Collaborating Networks: National Grid Electricity System Operator, SGN
  • Project Partners: The project will be completed in collaboration with SGN and National gas. Other non-funding networks will be able to join the project at no cost during the project. Existing innovation ecosystems will be sought as interested stakehodlers like the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) , Future Energy Networks and Energy Networks Association (ENA).

Abstract

The Innovation Highway phase 2 project will utilise AI and machine-learning to optimise the full innovation value chain. The platform will develop a minimum commercial product to help facilitate collaboration amongst networks, and other sectors such as water companies so they can innovate together. AI-empowered algorithms will simplify the identification, mapping, assessment and selection of problems and ideas, reducing manual processing time and enhancing effective decision making; this will support identifying and prioritising projects that will deliver the highest benefits. The platform will also help networks automate the development of cost benefit analysis.

The project provides significant potential for new learning. These learnings will be principally applied across the following areas:

  • Problems: learning about what problems we are trying to solve across a range of stakeholders and the relationships and partnering opportunities across these stakeholders
  • Solutions: learning about new ways to identify and select existing solutions that could solve our problems
  • Gaps: learning about new ways to prioritise ideas and projects based on problems that do not already have solutions
  • AI in innovation: learning how AI can support our innovation activities of identifying problems and solutions
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