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NIA SSEN 0060 Portable – Low Voltage Fault Passage Indicators (Portable – LV FPI)
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NIA SSEN 0072 Demand Diversification Service for LMAs
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NIA SSEN 0073 HOMEflex (Household or Microbusiness Energy Flexibility) Compliance
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NIA SSEN 0057 Decarbonising Utility Transport using Whole System Thinking
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NIA SSEN 0059 CageCapture™ SF6 Paint Detection
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NIA SSEN 0077 LCT Connections Readiness Indicator
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NIA SSEN 0063 VFES – Vulnerability Future Energy Scenarios
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NIA SSEN 0061 HOMEflex (Household or Microbusiness Energy Flexibility)
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NIA SSEN 0058 CageCapture™ SF6 Flange Guard
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NIA SSEN 0071 Regional Energy System Optimisation Planning (RESOP)
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NIA SSEN 0055 Net Zero Service Termination Project
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NIA SSEN 0051 SYNAPS 2 – Fault Detection, Classification & Location Solution
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NIA SSEN 0065 Storm AI
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NIA SSEN 0066 Power Supply for Pole Mounted LV Monitoring Devices where no Neutral is Present.
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NIA SSEN 0067 ExtenDER
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NIA SSEN 0068 New Approach to Losses
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NIA SSEN 0069 Low Voltage Power Quality (LVPQ)
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NIA SSEN 0070 Near Real-time Data Access 2 (NeRDA 2)
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NIA NGN 422 Vulnerability Visualisation Tool Phase 2 – Participating Partner – Led by Northern Gas Networks
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NIA SSEN 0079 Net Zero Service Termination 2 Project
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SHINE – Switch for Heating in No Energy
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NIA SSEPD 0001 DISCERN Knowledge Transfer
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NIA SSEPD 0022 Ester Fluid Transformer Re-Design
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NIA SSEN 0080 Voltmetric
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NIA SSEN 0056 Inertia Measurement in Island Networks
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NIA SSEN 0054 Alternative Jointing Techniques
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NIA SSEN 0062 Customer Led Electric Vehicle Early Registration (CLEVER)
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NIA SSEN 0078 Demand Diversification Service for LMAs Phase 2 – Commercial Trials
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NIA SSEN 0075 Alternative Jointing 2
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NIA SSEN 0076 Equal LCTs
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NIA SSEPD 0002 Locamation SASensor High-Medium Voltage (HMV) Primary Substation Protection
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NIA SSEPD 0003 Network Damage Reporter
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NIA SSEPD 0004 Ultrapole
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NIA SSEPD 0005 33kV Hot Glove Working
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NIA SSEPD 0006 Impact of Electrolysers on the Distribution Network
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NIA SSEPD 0007 Field Team Support Tool
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NIA SSEPD 0008 Parade (Polemounted Auto-Recloser Automated Distribution Evaluation)
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NIA SSEPD 0009 Automated Loop Restoration
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NIA SSEPD 0010 Mobile Generation Re-Sync at 11kV and 33kV
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NIA SSEPD 0011 ACCESS – Local Constraint Management (Mull)
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NIA SSEPD 0012 Network Resilient Zone Utilising Embedded Generation – Feasibility Study
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NIA SSEPD 0013 Network Resilient Zone Utilising Standby Generation – Feasibility Study
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NIA SSEPD 0014 Underground Cable Overlay Cost Reduction
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NIA SSEPD 0015 LV Connectivity Modelling
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NIA SSEPD 0016 Alternative Cable Installation Methods (ACIM) – Phase 1 (Feasibility Study)
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NIA SSEPD 0017 Overhead Line Vibration Monitoring Phase 2
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NIA SSEPD 0018 Assessment of Remotely Operated Mulching Methods
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NIA SSEPD 0019 Western Isles Network Resilient Zone Utilizing Embedded Generation – Feasibility Study
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NIA SSEPD 0020 Overhead Line Vibration Monitoring System
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NIA SSEPD 0021 Thermal imaging Observation techniques for Underground CAble Networks (TOUCAN)
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NIA SSEPD 0023 Fault Passage Indicators for Sensitive Earth Faults
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NIA SSEPD 0024 Network Optimisation Project (NOP)
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NIA SSEPD 0025 Applied Integrated Vegetation Management
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NIA SSEPD 0026 Management of plug-in vehicle uptake on distribution networks
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NIA SSEPD 0027 Low Cost LV Substation Monitoring
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NIA SSEPD 0029 11kV power electronics providing reactive compensation for voltage control
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NIA SSEN 0030 Whole-System Growth Scenario Modelling
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NIA SSEN 0031 Risk Assessment and Modelling of Smart nEtwork Solutions (RAMSES)
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NIA SSEN 0032 Phase Identification Unit to Assist in Underground Fault Location
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NIA SSEN 0033 ACSS Conductor Study
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NIA SSEN 0034 Submarine Cable Sensing (SUBsense)
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NIA SSEN 0035 Informed Lightning Protection
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NIA SSEN 0036 Social Constrained Managed Zones (CMZs)
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NIA SSEN 0037 Low Voltage – Underground Fault Location Technologies (LV-UFLT)
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NIA SSEN 0038 E Tourism
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NIA SSEN 0039 An Electric Heat Pathway – Looking Beyond Heat Pumps
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NIA SSEN 0040 Technical Interfaces to Scale as a DSO
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NIA SSEN 0041 MERLIN (Modelling the Economic Reactions Linking Individual Networks)
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NIA SSEN 0042 Feasibility of Compressed Dry Air 33kV Insulated Switchgear
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NIA SSEN 0043 Whole System Growth Scenario Modelling Phase 2
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NIA SSEN 0044 Smart Hammer
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NIA SSEN 0045 Future Fiscal Forecasting
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NIA SSEN 0046 Local Electric Vehicle Energy Loop (LEVEL)
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NIA SSEN 0047 TraDER
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NIA SSEN 0048 Skyline
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NIA SSEN 0049 Equal Electric Vehicles
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NIA SSEN 0050 Near Real-time Data Access (NeRDA)
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NIA SSEN 0052 Low Voltage Feeder Cable Open Circuit Detection
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NIA SSEN 0053 Future Control Room
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