Ofgem: Data and digitalisation- Discovery

Fund Details

Your project must address, Users and their context, Constraints affecting the problem or wider context, Opportunities for improvement, and Environmental impacts.

As a minimum you must directly address at least one as the primary focus of the proposed project:

• More transparent and effective pricing and allocation of reinforcement costs in relation to new connections
• How you will work in the open and utilise open-source approaches wherever appropriate
• Publication of searchable metadata of datasets produced through the project
• Enterprise and business processes to facilitate the flow of data within and between organisations
• Enabling consumers to use their data to engage in energy system innovation whilst maintaining privacy and security
• How interconnected assets can help network customers and consumers to interact with and support the energy networks
• How to improve the visibility of infrastructure and assets, for instance, new digital infrastructure or novel uses of sensor and communications technologies
• The interoperability of software platforms and data with other infrastructure sectors
• How novel uses of data and digital platforms can significantly improve network planning, modelling, and forecasting capabilities

Eligibility

To lead a project, you must:

• Be a licenced: gas distribution network, transmission network operator, or electricity system operator
• Partner with at least one other energy network licensee holding a different category of network licence, for example a gas transporter, electricity system operator, electricity transmission, electricity distribution or other energy network licenced company
• Work with researchers or private sector or organisations with technical capabilities in data and digital technologies
• Work with relevant data owners and processors
• Work with at least one other organisation as your subcontractor

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