Electricity Networks Strategy Group

The Electricity Networks Strategy Group (ENSG) provides advice to DTI, Ofgem, Defra, the Scottish Executive and the Welsh Assembly on issues associated with the development of the distribution and transmission electricity networks.

The Distributed Working Group (DWG) continues the work of the earlier Distributed Generation Coordinating Group's (DGCG) Technical Steering Group (TSG), examining the issues to enable the integration of generation onto the distribution network. The DWG manages four Work Programme areas:

1: Horizon Scanning:
Assessment of the current state of technology, likely developments, R&D progress, actual and forecast trends in penetration levels and future scenarios, regulatory and political policy to guide and formulate future programmes of work.

2: Network Design for a Low-Carbon Economy:
Evaluation of the technology, tools, techniques, processes and standards that would be required to construct power systems, compatible with the developing trends in low-carbon energy technology.

3: Enabling Active Network Management:
Development of the technologies, protocols, tools, processes, techniques and standards that would be needed to ensure that low-carbon compliant power systems could be operated on an active basis to ensure efficient use of investment and an effective contribution from potential market participants.

4: Facilitating Small-Scale Generation:
Continuation the focus on developing those solutions which would be needed to enable ‘non-expert’ users (such as home-owners) to take maximum advantage of emerging small-scale generation technology, so bringing maximum contribution from this part of the sector to the government’s low carbon targets.