Optimising regional clusters of smart electricity networks

该项目旨在通过使城镇社区更容易在呼叫国家电网之前优化自己的能源系统，从而降低能源成本并提高客户的能源供应安全性。这将通过一种新的本地网络控制系统来实现，该系统位于参与地区的变电站。对国家系统的好处是减少了对中央控制系统的需求。对地方的好处是，他们可以更有效地利用分布式发电资产（太阳能、风能等），并有可能从需求管理方法和技术中实现更大的价值。这是一个早期阶段的项目，旨在展示技术可行性，随后的试点和商业部署预计将产生高度可扩展和可出口的技术解决方案，为在全国范围内更广泛地采用低碳分布式能源技术提供平台。

The project aims to reduce energy costs and improve security of energy supply for customers by making it easier for communities in cities and towns to optimise their own energy system before calling on the National Grid. This will be achieved by a new kind of local network control system, located at substations across participating localities. The benefits to the national system are reduced demand on the central control system. The benefits to localities are scope for them to make more efficient use of distributed generation assets (solar, wind etc) and potential to realise greater value from demand management approaches and technologies. This is an early stage project to demonstrate technical feasibility and subsequent pilots and commercial deployments are expected to result in a highly scaleable and exportable technology solution, providing a platform wider adoption of low carbon distributed energy technologies nationally.