Decentralised System Resilience (Phase 2)

Decentralised System Resilience (Phase 2)

Status: Live
Reference: NIA2_SGN0113
Lead Network: SGN
Start Date: 01 December 2025
End Date: 01 June 2026
Budget: £319,000
Funding Mechanism: Network Innovation Allowance
Technology: Carbon Emission Reduction Technologies, Gas Distribution Networks, Gas Transmission Networks, Green Gas, Resilience
Strategy Theme: Net zero and the energy system transition
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 provide resilience solutions.

Organisations are becoming more reliant on electricity just as the grid decentralises, driving a growing need for stronger resilience against power outages. High profile outages such as those seen around Heathrow Airport and across Spain and Portugal in 2025 have brought the need for additional resilience solutions sharply into focus.

By engaging end users, DNOs, and other stakeholders, this programme will quantify the UK’s resilience challenge, build the evidence base, and determine whether there are opportunities for gas to play an additional role in providing resilience.

The project will result in an improved understanding of the potential future risk of supply interruptions and the role that the gas distribution network and green gases could play in supporting system resilience. It will generate insight into the energy security needs of key industrial and commercial sectors, including the public sector and critical infrastructure, and how organisations currently manage supply risks.

Insights into the economic and operational consequences of energy outages for businesses and the wider UK economy will be generated, along with an evaluation of the value that resilience solutions could provide.

The project will result in evidence which can be used to inform discussions with policymakers and the regulator on the potential role of GDNs in supporting energy system resilience and the policy or regulatory changes that may be required.

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