Our consultants are actively involved in a wide variety of creative projects with major infrastructure companies, institutions and agencies as well as with universities and SMEs.
Some examples of the range of projects we’ve worked on or are in progress include:
HV Pinpoint:Developing systems for detection and precise location of pre-fault events in the HV underground network with live trial in Coventry for NGED
Powering Wales Renewably:creating a connected digital twin of Wales’s energy transmission and distribution network with CGI and NESO
Klik Power: Low cost sensors for multicore HV armoured cable
Hippogriff: Wireless sensing with power scavenging for IoT sensing
Flexible, active, intelligent electricity networks
Transformer and cable wireless monitoring, thermal rating and environmental monitoring
Low cost non-invasive HV switchgear load monitoring and condition prognostics
Automated and remote controlled high capacity LV circuit breakers and switches with power electronics, load monitoring and adaptive protection
HV incipient fault detection and location
Active Response: Power electronics for HV & LV networks, Soft Open Points and Soft Power Bridges.
Dynamic Response: Responsive Inertia, Voltage Support and Fault current forcing 11-400kV
HV and LV Protection relays: Non-invasive HV Directional power, LV Fast
Set and Reverse Power
Impounded dams: Distributed condition monitoring and prognostic
systems for dams and reservoirs
Charge: Radical DC networks for large scale distributed G2V, V2G, V2V & x2x networks to optimise capacity and minimise space for plant and cabling
Kestrel: Active network management and real-time loss measurement and reduction toolsets with GPS timing and location systems for event detection, location and analysis
Zefal: Optimised generators designed for network compatibility “A model network citizen”
Cable theft alarm: system for railways.
Through these and many other
projects we have delivered diverse services including the road-mapping of
business innovation programmes, complex integrated demonstration projects,
power electronics, real-time wireless monitoring, prognostics, visualisation,
evaluation of low carbon energy opportunities, challenge and review, economic
and value analysis, and programme management. We have also helped clients to
create and validate views of the future of their business through our workshops
services.
Funding
We are experienced in successfully assisting companies with the structuring and preparation of bids to Innovate UK and industry funded schemes such as the Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) and the Network innovation Competition (NIC). We also work extensively with universities to establish collaborative projects with industry.