Smart Networks

The Connections Lab

Experiment with a connections offer to understand the constraints and queues associated with it, highlighting the operational performance under planning assumptions

Key deliverables

  • Provide web application for connection studies: https://curtailment.ukpowernetworks.co.uk
  • Automate data creation and publishing for new DERs
  • Enable reproducible study configurations

Target outcomes

  • Reduce application fees and wait times for connections
  • Support Connections Reform and CSAT journey

Measures of success

  • Number of studies completed
  • Total application fees and wait time saved
  • User satisfaction with application process

Stakeholder Engagement

Connections Lab working group of customers who helped design the application. DSO Data in Action webinar.

Timeline

Planned start:
05.06.2023
Target completion:
31.03.2026

Status

Extended

Milestones

  • Automated creation and publishing of data for new connected DERS (Oct 25)
  • Migration to new planning database (Nov 25)
  • Reproducible and replicable configuration IDs attributed to all studies so that customer can recreate what the planner did (Nov 25)
  • Personalisation using bespoke profiles assigned to the queue (Nov 25)
  • Adaptation to enable Connections Reform (Mar 26)

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