Flexible Connections
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and Flexible Connections allow us to offer potentially a more cost effective way of connecting their Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to our network.
Connecting via ANM will allow our customers to potentially avoid upfront costs and timely delays involved in standard reinforcement approaches. These types of connections are essential for maintaining a stable and efficient energy network, in keeping with our Distribution System Operator (DSO) action plan.
Flexible connections are part of a world leading approach to switching up traditional methods of physical network upgrades and offering a smart solution to allow for an alternative to traditional reinforcement.
What we do, and why:
Some of the key benefits of connecting with us via ANM are listed below:
• Helps us to connect customers earlier and deliver the Net Zero vision.
• Greater real time co-ordination in energy system operation.
• Potentially reduces cost and enables customers to connect.
• Supports us in engagement with our stakeholders on the value that flexible resources can provide at any one time.
All of these, and many more are how we are using flexibility to deliver upon our DSO objectives and how they sit at the core of our ambition towards a net zero world.
What is an ANM and how do they operate?
How to connect:
Overall, SSEN's ANM is a powerful tool for managing electricity networks that helps to balance supply and demand, optimises energy storage, and integrate renewable energy sources in a potentially more efficient and effective manner.
Interested in becoming a Flexible Connections customer? The steps on how to connect for one are shown below:
Our live works
We're rolling out Active Network Management solutions across both of licenced Network Areas.
See below for more information on the great work we're doing:
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Orkney ANM is designed as a set-up of measurement points split into different Zones and was built to protect our network from overload. The Orkney ANM is outlined on the indicated map:
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Stag Lane is the only generator currently connected on the Isle of Wight ANM which is indicated in the included map:
Hamer Warren is a single generator ANM and has been designed to manage a thermal constraint on the overhead network between the point of connection and Mill Lane C3L5 Circuit Breaker. This site is an additional capacity to Hamer Warren site which is on SWAN ANM.
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More information
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Operational Decision Making (ODM)
To find out more about our about how we are optimizing our network and delivering network capacity in the most efficient and effective way, download our Operational Decision Making Framework.
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Document Library
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