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The greatest vanishing act since Shergar! mol.im/a/15686239

In a shock to nobody, the digitisation plan for the power system is not on schedule Since @neso_energy is still using privatisation era software from the 1980s to balance the grid and communicate with large power stations, this is no surprise It staggers me that the likes of @DaleVince are going round suggesting we can get off gas in setting the price for wholesale electricity when it would require a much more sophisticated arrangement than we have now You would need to fully digitise all power generation and batteries so they can both submit generation intentions and prices and receive instructions Right now only large transmission connected generators have to do this, not the thousands of assets on the low voltage grids My guess is NESO would take a decade and still not deliver something that works It tried to replace the balancing software already. A project was launched in 2009 but dropped in 2024!! The article is behind a paywall but here are the opening paragraphs... "The government’s plan to align digital systems across the energy sector will be implemented too late to have a meaningful impact on reaching clean power by 2030. That is according to senior policy advisers and members of the Energy Geeks thinktank. The warning comes after the government and Ofgem published the inaugural Energy Digitalisation Framework earlier this week." @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @griffitha @NJ_Timothy @DavidGHFrost @afneil @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattwridley @mattotele utilityweek.co.uk/digitalisation…

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