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Policy Brief | Decarbonising the energy system. New digital infrastructure - Prof Gareth Taylor

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Professor Gareth Taylor’s research project on Smart Grid data exchange betweenTransmission System Operators (TSO) and Distribution System Operators (DSO)defines new information systems tools and techniques which improve:

  • Scalability: the ability to deal with the new users and increasingly largervolumes of data involved in lower carbon energy technologies
  • Security: protection against external threats and attacks, and
  • Interoperability: the ability for new applications and processes to be easilyintegrated with a ‘plug in and play’ approach, based on open standards

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