why are we doing this?
The project will produce knowledge to help electricity customers across the country reduce both their energy costs and their carbon emissions. If, as a result, it speeds up the installation of low-carbon technologies by just one year, it could save the country around £8 billion in energy costs and 43 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Phil Jones, President of Northern Powergrid says: “This is a project whose time has come. What is being contemplated in the electricity industry is nothing short of a revolution. It used to be that all the power came from a few power stations to every property – and all the energy flowed one way. The prospect of smarter networks opens up a whole new set of possibilities - customers can generate their own energy and use home-based technology to regulate how and when they use it.”
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the project,
how it is funded and about
the changes driving it.