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Power Networks Demonstration Centre - University of Strathclyde
Iliana Portugues
62 Napier Road
Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire G68 0EF
Scotland
E-mail: jill.coleman@strath.ac.uk
The Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC) is a unique, world-class, collaborative research, development and demonstration venture aimed at supporting its members achieve international excellence through support with investigations, testing and implementation of innovative solutions.
PNDC was founded by the University of Strathclyde, ScottishPower Energy Networks and SSE Power Distribution with support from Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council. The Centre brings together its members, engineers and technologists to define and execute research, development and demonstration projects that will help shape the electricity industry of the future. Its collaborative model creates multidisciplinary teams from across the Centre, industrial partners and leading experts from academia. This pooling of resources creates financial and intellectual momentum that no one institution could achieve in a single endeavor. This amalgamation is underpinned by unique testing facilities comprising low-voltage laboratories and a fully operational distribution network.
Together, world-class experts and facilities allow PNDC to play a key role in accelerating emerging technologies towards commercial deployment in a realistic, controllable, environment within which to de-risk smarter solutions for tomorrow’s networks.
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