Investment planning

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Investment planning
David van Kesteren System Design
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Who are we?

• Private company, owned by MidAmerican Energy
  Holdings Company
• Distribution Network Operator (DNO)
• Own operate and maintain networks
• Yorkshire Electricity
• Northern Electric
• No electricity supply business
• Monopoly, regulated business

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Customer relations

• Three main areas of customer contact
• Planned outages
• Network faults
• Connections
• Load
• Generation
• Dedicated customer connections centre

Point of Connection
1000MW 500MW 100MW 50MW 1MW 4kW
Typical Connections Process
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Planning

• Tools for planners
• Long Term Development Statement
• Planning policies
• Primary network
• Network limitations
• Network diagrams
• Authorised major schemes
• Connections activity
• Sharing and explaining local investment plans
• Indicative connection enquiries

Source EU SmartGrids

• 10-yr investment plan
• Large asset portfolio
• Generic investment levels
• Work programmes
• Specific projects