Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks

So in this case, Network Rail is paying for flood risk mitigation because it makes sense for them on a commercial basis to reduce the risk to their tracks.

Similarly, SSEN have been a huge partner in this and they are the local distributed network operator, the DNO.

So they're essentially the folks that are making sure all the homes and businesses are getting electricity in the region.

They were identifying that their substations, when the substations were flooding, you'd have power outages.

How can we enable farmers to get paid for being stewards of the land? There's no quick answer, but it's a bit of a regulatory, multi-angled picture with lots of different sectors being regulated in different ways, coming together and figuring out how to make all the pieces work.

There's a really neat sort of sub-programme going on within the Evenload Landscape Recovery Project that's worth spotlighting because it illustrates this really nicely.

Great Yellow, alongside Evenload and a few other stakeholders, were awarded some funding from Ofgem to support a programme with SSEN called Nature for Networks.

And this is the beta phase of this programme.

Yeah.

So at the end of the day, the pricing is set through an open tendering process or how will it actually work? Because I know for some of the actual, you know, SSEN and National Grid and others, they may be working more in a regulator asset-based model or some other set of systems that ensures that, you know, that they are delivering nationally critical infrastructure in a sort of pre-agreed cost managed process.

How does that work for you?

So at the moment, a lot of the tendering is timing materials that we deal with today.

This is something else.

Um, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, SSEN Distribution, has received grant funding through the energy regulator Ofgem's Strategic Innovation Fund here for a initiative intended to lower the cost of on-street EV charging.

It's called the Roaming Meter Point Administration Number.

Uh, this is quite boring, but, uh, I'll quickly tell you what an MPAN is.

Now, your, your network, your electricity network here anyway, the connection to the grid has that thirteen-digit MPAN number, which could be used to identify you to charge irrespective of where you charge.

The proposition is simple: a household tariff used at any other electrical connection on the grid.

SSEN said the scheme could provide network benefits by encouraging drivers to use on-street charging or any AC charging they could find overnight when elect-- when electricity demand is obviously much, much lower.

All right, let's continue the podcast today, and let's talk about Australia adding EV workshop equipment to their latest scheme.