BioMy first brush with the power industry was in early 1991, just before "Vesting Day" in the UK. At the time, I was working for Price Waterhouse, who were developing a system called the "Energy Contracts Management System (ECMS)". This was the system to be used by the then Regional Electricity Companies (RECs), such as Northern Electric, SWEB, NorWeb, etc.
I worked as part of the ECMS development team for a number of months, learning about Grid Supply Points (GSPs), Bulk Supply Points, the structure of the upcoming Electricity Market, etc. Next door to the ECMS team was the team who were working 100-hour weeks to develop a system called the "Settlements Interim Development (SID)"; this was built from scratch in approximately 3 months, when the overall project management group realised that the main Settlements system wouldn't be ready for Vesting Day.
These days I'm more interested in what's coming up in the 2- to 30-year timeframe: massive adoption of electric vehicles, with the associated requirement for massive installation of charging infrastructure; electrification of domestic heating, plus expansion of smart metering; continued expansion of renewables; grid-scale storage, etc. CompanyCaversham Global Trading LtdJob titleProprietor
