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Innovation: Stepping Up the Industry (2015)
Report
Barnes, B., Coppenhall, P., Hove, T., Huett, J., Jefferis, P., McPhillips, S., & Roche, M. (in press). Innovation: Stepping Up the Industry. [No known commissioning body]

High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers on Time of Use Tariffs (2015)
Report
Bulkeley, H., Matthews, P., Whitaker, G., Bell, S., Wardle, R., Lyon, S., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers on Time of Use Tariffs. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This report presents the key messages from the final analysis of the time of use (ToU) tariff trial group in the Customer-Led Network Revolution monitoring trials. It presents outputs from a significant study of household electricity use and ToU tari... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers on Time of Use Tariffs.

High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers (2015)
Report
Bell, S., Capova, K., Barteczko-Hibbert, C., Matthews, P., Wardle, R., Bulkeley, H., …Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This summary presents the key messages from the final analysis of the domestic heat pump group (test cell 3) in the Customer-Led Network Revolution monitoring trials. It presents outputs from the largest study of household electricity use in the UK a... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers.

High Level Summary of Learning: Electrical Vehicle Users (2015)
Report
Capova, K., Wardle, R., Bell, S., Lyon, S., Bulkeley, H., Matthews, P., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Electrical Vehicle Users. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This report describes the CLNR trial which examined electric vehicles usage patterns and expected network loading in the event of large-scale take-up of electric vehicles. The trial involved domestic customers who owned an electric vehicle and had ac... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Electrical Vehicle Users.

High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers (2015)
Report
Bulkeley, H., Whitaker, G., Matthews, P., Bell, S., Lyon, S., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, EA Technology Limited and the University of Durham

This summary presents the key messages from the final analysis of the baseline domestic profile control group in the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) monitoring trials. It presents outputs from the largest study of household electricity use in... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers.

High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Solar PV Customers (2015)
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Bulkeley, H., Whitaker, G., Matthews, P., Bell, S., Lyon, S., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Solar PV Customers. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, EA Technology Limited and the University of Durham

This report examines the nature and practice of energy use by domestic customers in the CLNR project who generated their own solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity. It brings together power monitoring data capable of providing insight into how electrici... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Solar PV Customers.

Micro-CHP Trial Report (2014)
Report
Jones, O., Wardle, R., & Matthews, P. (2014). Micro-CHP Trial Report. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This report presents an analysis of the performance of domestic Micro-CHP devices, installed at 11 separate domestic locations for the CLNR project. The report addresses Learning Objective 1 of the project, which is to enhance understanding of curren... Read More about Micro-CHP Trial Report.

Survey of Commercially Available SCADA Data Analysis Tools for Wind Turbine Health Monitoring (2014)
Report
Chen, B., Zappalá, D., Crabtree, C., & Tavner, P. (2014). Survey of Commercially Available SCADA Data Analysis Tools for Wind Turbine Health Monitoring. [No known commissioning body]

By analysing data from the Signal Conditioning and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems fitted to wind turbines (WT) their manufacturers, Operators and other experts are able to monitor and improve WT performance. This survey summarises and describes the... Read More about Survey of Commercially Available SCADA Data Analysis Tools for Wind Turbine Health Monitoring.

Survey of commercially available condition monitoring systems for wind turbines (2014)
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Crabtree, C., Zappalá, D., & Tavner, P. (2014). Survey of commercially available condition monitoring systems for wind turbines. UK EPSRC SUPERGEN Wind Energy Technologies programme

As wind energy assumes greater importance in remote and offshore locations, effective and reliable condition monitoring techniques are required. Failure rate and downtime studies have also highlighted a need for condition monitoring of particular win... Read More about Survey of commercially available condition monitoring systems for wind turbines.

Insight Report: Domestic Time of Use Tariff: A comparison of the time of use tariff trial to the baseline domestic profiles (2013)
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Whitaker, G., Wardle, R., Barteczko-Hibbert, C., Matthews, P., Bulkeley, H., & Powells, G. (2013). Insight Report: Domestic Time of Use Tariff: A comparison of the time of use tariff trial to the baseline domestic profiles. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited EA Technology Ltd and the University of Durham

Peak electricity demand poses a particular challenge both to network operators and to energy suppliers. A reduction in peak demand would allow existing networks to accommodate load growth with lower investment, and also reduce the cost of electricity... Read More about Insight Report: Domestic Time of Use Tariff: A comparison of the time of use tariff trial to the baseline domestic profiles.

The impact of changes in the water table and soil moisture on structural stability of buildings and foundation systems: Systematic review CEE10-005 (SR90) (2012)
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Toll, D., Abedin, Z., Buma, J., Cui, Y., Osman, A., & Phoon, K. (2012). The impact of changes in the water table and soil moisture on structural stability of buildings and foundation systems: Systematic review CEE10-005 (SR90). [No known commissioning body]

This Systematic Review aims to consider the impact of changes in the ground water table and soil moisture regime on structural stability of buildings and foundation systems. The possible changes in the water table levels and soil moisture conditions... Read More about The impact of changes in the water table and soil moisture on structural stability of buildings and foundation systems: Systematic review CEE10-005 (SR90).