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This application form should be completed if your project is being processed within the group processing approach GPA, and you wish the system operators to use assumed project data rather than specific project data provided by you.

Operational roles and responsibilities for system operators and users under normal conditions. The detailed requirements are being developed and will be transferred into our existing Distribution Code. This code includes outage planning and data exchange.

In November 2020, ESB Networks established our new Innovation Stakeholder Panel. This panel will provide a platform for enabling open discussion and feedback on our Innovation Strategy, projects and activities.

Following a call for expressions of interest in October 2020, we selected 19 panel members based on a number of criteria, across 10 stakeholder sectors. These panel members will represent our stakeholder sectors with a reach nationally and internationally. This document details the Terms of Reference for the Stakeholder Innovation Panel, it outlines the purpose and objective of the panel, the structure and timelines for meetings,  and the panel membership and sectors represented. 

This document outlines the activities undertaken by ESB Networks in furtherance of the P2P objective of the Dingle Project, the learnings garnered from these activities and proposed future steps to be undertaken to increase learnings on the potential impact of P2P energy on the operation of the distribution network.

The Dingle Project explored the impact of low carbon and clean energy enabling technologies on the electricity network and evaluated the potential for these technologies, installed at residential and small business settings, to offer support to the grid. This report outlines the insights and observations from this trial.

Modification No. 37 - Transition of Voltage Control Modes for Windfarms

Effective Date 23/02/2016

This document lists the conditions that ESB must comply with as Transmission Asset Owner (TAO). Under arrangements approved by CRU, the functions of the TAO are carried out by ESB staff assigned to ESB Networks business unit, managed by ESB Networks DAC

The purpose of this consultation is to seek views from industry on the joint proposal from EirGrid and ESB Networks to introduce contestability of commissioning for customer connections to the electricity system at transmission and distribution level.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek views from industry on the joint proposal from EirGrid and ESB Networks to introduce contestability of commissioning for customer connections to the electricity system at transmission and distribution level.

To date, ESB Networks have not required visibility/sensors on the low voltage (LV) network as the design standards and consumer loads have not greatly varied over the last few decades.  In the coming years, as more and more customers adopt low carbon technology (LCT), the loading on the LV network will increase dramatically and will challenge the design limits.

It is expected that in time, with full Smart Meter rollout, development of appropriate IT (compliant with all GDPR requirements) could allow for a ‘bottom up’ assessment of transformer loadings. However, in the interim period, it is important to obtain vision of the capacity of the LV network, in particular the capacity of transformers, so that any reinforcement which might be required can be programmed in advance of overloads taking place.

In advance of obtaining smart meter data, an interim solution which provides vision of the capacity of transformers needs to be low-cost, and easy to install safely with minimum interruption of supply to customers, to ensure that the cost-benefit is maximised. This meant that installation of traditional load monitoring devices could not be entertained. To this end, the project sought to assess the viability of LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) IoT Temperature sensors to provide an indication of transformer overload. It was expected that temperature sensors would provide early warning of loading levels and hence allow the pre-emptive uprating of the Substation capacity. It was decided to build upon a previous innovation project which used the Sigfox network to develop a proof of concept for low-cost harvesting of data.