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More than £50million available for Flexibility in biggest-ever tender
the growing Flexibility market by unveiling a funding package of £50million covering more than 130 sites in its largest-ever open tender. The electricity network operator is seeking a total of 250MW of flexible capacity and is offering its first ever extra high voltage sites for tender – potentially opening the market to a host of new entrants. The latest tender round offers
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contracts up to 2028, covering system needs that will arise during the next electricity network price control period from 2023 – 2028. Pre-qualification for the new tender round closes on December 8, with the tender competition open from January 11-20, 2021. This follows the success of the company’s April 2020 tender, which it signed contracts for the world’s first ever low voltage flexibility service. Flexibility is a fast-growing new
market that enables low carbon distributed energy resources, such as batteries and demand side response, to provide additional capacity to help manage the network at peak times. By managing the output of
these ‘distributed energy resources’, instead of building new substations and laying more cables in the traditional way, UK Power Networks is reducing costs for consumers. Flexibility proposals were assessed to ensure they are benefitting consumers by offering lower costs in comparison to the
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traditional approach of building new assets. The latest opportunities cover
all three of UK Power Networks’ three licence areas in London and the South East and East of England. A number of different products are available to reflect the needs of different market participants. Contracts range from
traditional contracts offering the certainty of a set fee for a set service to more flexible contracts that allow providers to make a decision about participating in the market closer to real-time. Sotiris Georgiopoulos, head of
smart grid development at UK Power Networks, said: “We are forging ahead with a flexibility market that is open, transparent and accessible. We are now opening more sites backed by more funding than ever before, and for the first ever time in the UK at every level from low voltage to extra high voltage. “A huge part of our success so
far has been because we have co- designed the market with the very people participating in it, which has led to a host of innovations such as contracts ranging from six months to seven years in length, and minimum volumes of just 10kW to participate. “ To find out more about
Flexibility and UK Power Networks visit its online Flexibility hub. To view all of the available sites for Flexibility and participate in the Flexibility tender visit the online platform Piclo.
Quantum combines data management and storage in new platform
platform to integrate real-time data classification and insights with the needs of applications, determining how storage resources are allocated and consumed. Data insights enable organisations to visualise data without the constraints of a file system, automate purposeful data placement based on policies, and optimise resources using just-in-time data movement policies. The ability to support the needs of data and applications on premise or in the cloud advances Quantum’s strategy to be the leading provider of management and storage services for unstructured data anywhere. “The engineering teams at Quantum worked with storage experts to
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address the many challenges IT teams face with growing storage needs. They designed an innovative and unchained solution with cutting edge technology, data provenance and analytics to provide a storage platform that works for IT, instead of IT that works for storage,” noted Jeffrey McDonald, PhD, Director of Information Technology, The Hormel Institute. Customers
today are performing “unnatural acts” to manage their data – guessing at capacity and where data lives, or crawling file systems for days to find what is needed by the business. They are often uncertain about what they can
delete and when they can delete it. The results are silos of data, and a loss of control and visibility. ATFS (All-Terrain File System) meets this challenge. It is designed to ensure just-in-time purposeful placement of data, meeting the performance, resiliency, availability, and access demands of applications and workflows. As a result, ATFS delivers a consistent end user experience to deploy resources on premise or in the cloud. By leveraging data classification, metadata and business-oriented
tagging to streamline and optimise storage resource consumption, ATFS transforms storage economics, eliminating the premium organisations pay for performance.
Flooded with daylight as Knightsbridge launches 6000K units K
nightsbridge – one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of wiring devices, accessories and lighting – has bolstered its outdoor lighting range with a trio
of LED floodlights in 6000K Daylight. Ideal for high-level security illumination in commercial, retail and domestic environments, the three floodlights come in 100W, 150W and 200W and 9200, 14100, and 18400 lumens respectively. These floodlights have die-cast aluminium casings, feature high output reflectors
and are IP rated to IP65, which means they are not only dust protected, but can also withstand low pressure water jets (from a 6.3mm nozzle) from any direction. They also offer instant ignition, making them suitable for use with LED-compatible external sensors. The LED floodlights in 6000K Daylight are a perfect complement to the current
LED floodlight range in 4000K Cool White, which otherwise share all the features and benefits of the new units. As with all Knightsbridge products, the floodlights have been designed with
installers in mind, featuring integral brackets for wall mounting and internal terminals blocks on the rear to allow direct wiring.
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uantum Corp. has unveiled its all-new data and storage management platform - Quantum ATFS. It is the first network-attached storage
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