Learnings

Outcomes

                                           Data Point                                        Data Point Definition

Maturity                             TRL 2-3                                              At concept level (NIA Project)

Opportunity                       100% of single asset class                Models can be applied across the business to project LDZ supply and                                                                                                                   demand of gas with notebooks readily available 

Deployment costs              £0                                                      Unknown but minimal deployment costs due to software nature

Innovation cost                  £162,667                                           Cost of innovation project,

Financial Saving                 £0                                                      Unknown, research project

Safety                                 0                                                        Not project focus

Environment                      0.0                                                     No environmental impact 

Compliance                                                                                  Supports compliance

Skills & Competencies                                                                 No change

Future proof                      Supports business strategy              High quality forecasts/projections are critical for the safe, secure, and                                                                                                             efficient planning and operation of Great Britain’s gas system, informing                                                                                                                 decisions on multiple time scales.                 

Lessons Learnt

This project is still ongoing and formal lessons learnt have still to be generated. 

Preliminary lessons learnt for future projects include: 

·       Incorporating climatology models into supply/demand projections can be complex, always include contingency time in project plans for projects involving the models in future.

·       Data gathering can be time consuming and require stringent data access credentials depending on its source. Ensure risk mitigation strategies are robust enough to reduce delays in gathering data. 

·       Legal do not allow us as a business to share information via GitHub easily therefore secure access via sharepoint is the best way to manage data access for sharing/modifying code.