Two £4m projects have been launched by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) which will reduce the impact of faults on electricity distribution networks, helping the growth and increased flexibility of distribution systems, with more low carbon electricity generation installed in the distribution system.
They will also help minimise the costs of upgrading the UK’s electricity distribution network over the next 20 to 30 years.
Each project will develop and demonstrate a fault current limiter device, which will reduce the damaging currents resulting from network faults and increase electricity network reliability for the future.
The two projects, part of the ETI’s Energy Storage and Distribution Programme, will accelerate the development and demonstration of two of the most promising fault current limiter technologies from around the world.
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