Celsius
- Status:
- Complete
- Project Reference Number:
- ENWLEN01
- START DATE:
- END DATE:
Project summary
- Funding mechanism:
-
- NIC
- Technology:
-
- Comms and IT
- Expenditure:
- £5,554,000
- Preceding Projects:
- Third Party Collaborators:
-
- Ricardo
- Ash Wireless
- Impact Research
Celsius is an innovative, cost-effective approach to managing potentially excessive temperatures at distribution substations, which may constrain the connection of low carbon technologies. By delivering new solutions to manage these ‘thermal pinch points’, Celsius releases additional capacity from existing assets, reduces long-term costs for customers and avoids early asset replacement.
Objectives
A simple ‘Thermal Ratings Tool’ will accurately indicate an asset’s internal operating temperature using low cost external retrofit sensors. This knowledge will enable network operators to release the maximum capacity from existing assets without degrading their health and reliability. Celsius will show when and how to intervene to enhance that capacity by using a range of retrofit cooling techniques. The Project will prove that these techniques are acceptable to customers and can be rolled out across GB.
Similar projects
Design of a smart tool for detecting hidden errors in protection setting files.
Start date:
End date:
Status:
Technology:
- Comms and IT
Funding mechanism:
- Network Innovation Allowance
Assessment of Wireless Technologies in a Substation Environment.
Start date:
End date:
Status:
Technology:
- Comms and IT
Funding mechanism:
- Network Innovation Allowance
Next Generation Wireless Telecoms Analysis.
Start date:
End date:
Status:
Technology:
- Comms and IT
Funding mechanism:
- Network Innovation Allowance