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Electricity Explained
Generators connect onto the network in two ways – either as transmission connected generation or embedded generation. It can help to think of it like our roads network. The…
Electricity Explained
Do you know your DNOs from your ESOs? And how does electricity actually get to your home, around the country and overseas?
Electricity Explained
Using the infrastructure owned by the three transmission companies – National Grid Electricity Transmission, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Ltd. and SP Energy Networks – high…
Electricity Explained
Most people know that the Electricity System Operator (ESO) keeps homes and businesses supplied with the electricity they need, whenever it’s needed. But that’s just one…
Electricity Explained
If you haven’t thought about EVs yet, you soon will. We predict there’ll be up to 37.4 million of them on the road by 2050.Most major governments have already committed to ban the sale of new petrol…
Electricity Explained
We now get more of our electricity from renewable sources than ever before, which is great news for the environment as it helps us to cut down on our carbon emissions.
Balancing services
Reactive power services are how we make sure voltage levels on the system remain within a given range, above or below nominal voltage levels. We instruct generators or other asset owners to either…
Balancing services
The Obligatory Reactive Power Service (ORPS) is the provision of varying reactive power output. At any given output generators may be requested to produce or absorb reactive power to help manage…
Electricity Explained
So things that are not moving need a force – like a gust of wind – to get them moving, while things that are moving will keep moving unless a force, like friction, causes…
Electricity Explained
Is it the kettle, the old school light bulbs, the tumble dryer? And did you check the power consumption on that new outdoor heater you bought for your garden makeover?