International Women’s Day: four career experiences with ElectraLink

Published: March 8, 2023

Women hold just 16 per cent of jobs in the traditional energy workforce, demonstrating that the energy sector must attract more women to its talent pool to contribute their diverse experiences and knowledge to meet ambitious net zero goals. This International Women’s Day, we sat down with four colleagues at ElectraLink to hear their perspectives on career progression, their experiences being a woman within their respective fields, and insights on how we can inspire positive change.

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Emergent harnesses DCUSA Sandbox to drive microgrid benefits trial

Published: February 21, 2023

Emergent Energy Systems Limited is a UK-based systems developer which implements net zero technologies in local communities, primarily microgrids for social housing providers in Gateshead, Nottingham, and Brighton. Emergent partnered with Northern Powergrid (NPG) as part of a DCUSA Innovation Sandbox trial. With expertise from ElectraLink, the parties worked together using the DCUSA Innovation Sandbox to assess and understand the regulatory environment and consider derogations from specific code clauses.

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Ofgem’s response to the Microbusiness Strategic Review: a brief analysis

Published: May 5, 2022

Words by Tim Hipperson, Governance Services Consultant In late March 2022, Ofgem published their final decision on the outcome of the Microbusiness Strategic Review (MBSR) – a project to identify and resolve challenges for microbusinesses as customers in the energy market. The regulator’s decision has extensive impacts for end users as well as suppliers, and it is worth tracking how the review arose and will transpire for the retail energy market.

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ElectraLink, RECCo and REC Code Manager co-build APIs for energy market performance assurance

Published: March 2, 2022

ElectraLink, the Retail Energy Code Company (RECCo) and REC Code Manager have completed a collaborative project to integrate existing energy market data into retail energy market performance assurance.

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Meet Furqan: ElectraLink’s master of digitalisation

Published: January 26, 2022

Furqan Aziz is the Principal Consultant in ElectraLink’s Governance Services team. With a decade of experience in the energy sector, Furqan brings to ElectraLink his expertise working with several organisations to build their digital solutions for the future of the energy market. Since joining ElectraLink, he has made extensive progress with the digitalisation of DCUSA and developing data solutions to complement energy market participants’ existing digitalised systems.

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