ETI seeks partners for a project examining how different networks could integrate and the potential for a multi-vector approach to future energy supply
04/12/2015 Energy Technologies Institute (ETI)
-€¢ The ETI will invest up to £300,000 in the nine month Future:Networks Multi Vector Integration Project-€¢ The project in the ETI's Energy and Storage and Distribution programme aims to understand the opportunity for, and implications of moving to, more integrated multi-vector networks
-€¢ The request for proposals will close on 29th January 2015, the deadline for notification of intention to submit a proposal is 15th January 2015
The ETI is seeking partners for a project which aims to understand the opportunity for and implications of moving to more integrated multi-vector networks.
The ETI will invest up to £300,000 in the Future Networks Multi Vector Integration Project in its Energy Storage and Distribution technology Programme area.
The UK's energy networks will require substantial investment in new capacity, technology development and innovation to accommodate low carbon generation sources to ensure that they are fit for purpose to meet predicted future demand.
Networks must have the capacity to not only meet peak flow demand, but also build in extra capacity.
The project will identify the ways in which different networks could interact, examine what the effects on each of the networks would be and identify any technology or operational opportunities that would lead to increased integration between vectors.
In the energy system of the future there could be increased interdependence between the different energy networks that currently, and will in future, supply the nation's energy with several individual energy vectors such as electricity, gas or hydrogen capable of delivering multiple services.
Currently the networks themselves are operated independently and regulated in such a way that restricts wider system benefits being delivered.
For more information, please contact:
Energy Technologies Institute (ETI)
Holywell Building
Holywell Way
Loughborough
LE11 3UZ
Tel: +44 1509 202020
Email: news@eti.co.uk
Web: www.eti.co.uk
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