Our vision is to deploy large numbers of low-cost measurement devices to form a network providing information informing electricity companies and other large-scale users: * about where they can reduce electricity system losses to help with CO2 reductions and EV, heat pump, renewable generation and other low carbon technology integration; * to improve fault detection location, thus helping restore service to vulnerable customers and others; and * to support other network management activities. There are many proven approaches to the problems of electricity-based losses, overloading and security of supply (although these are often resource intensive, slow and with limited accuracy). The first steps are typically to identify the particular parts of the systems most affected in order to determine both the causes and the most appropriate and economic solutions to deliver the greatest commercial and societal benefits. In practice, it is necessary to separate out the technical (joule) losses from those arising from issues with commercial operations such as metering, billing and theft - itself a process fraught with complexity. Increasingly it is also necessary to understand when such losses occur and not just the average over time as their critical impact on plant loadings and capacity occurs at peak load times and is non-linear (a 25% increase in loading due to losses producing a 50% increase in the thermal loading of plant, cables and lines -- which, in turn, increases system losses even further). The increasing connection of various forms of intermittent distributed generation and storage further add to the complexity as at times they can change the direction of load flows and both reduce or increase overloading and losses as well as having a profound impact on the local carbon intensity of the energy supplied. The main motivation for this project is to provide an electronic measurement product which can form a network of sparse remote low-cost monitoring for locating, visualising and where relevant producing time-profiles of: * areas with poor access and security of supply; * technical losses in real time; * areas with high commercial losses; * local carbon tracking; * available and exceeded capacity, power factor, unbalance and harmonics; * areas with under or over voltage; * automatically generated network circuit connectivity and impedances; and * locations of fault (target accuracy of less than one span) and overloaded circuits. Project Kestrel is a collaboration between Create Innovation Solutions Ltd., Loughborough University, Queen's University Belfast and ASH Wireless Electronics Ltd. The project will undertake a 3-month feasibility study to produce and test a highly accurate timing device capable of facilitating the calculation of losses, fault detection and network event location using voltage phase angles and event timing measurements.

KlikPower is a project led by Create Innovation Solutions Ltd and supported by CREST at Loughborough University focused on the development and evaluation of a very low cost, remotely readable, non-invasive electricity substation monitoring sensor using an innovative and disruptive technology already proven at TRL3 (experimental proof of concept) level, leading to a practical pilot demonstrator (TRL6 -- technology demonstrated in relevant environment) to gain knowhow to turn this idea into a product. KlikPower sensors will form a network which will provide data and information focused on the business needs of UK distribution network operators and private network operators including rail companies, together with similar organisations in other countries who require cost-effectively obtained and timely data in order to more actively and efficiently plan and operate their networks in a far more uncertain world -- where there are large amounts of intermittent renewable generation, many electric vehicles (which may be consuming or providing power) and much weather dependent heating connected to low voltage electricity networks. The KlikPower network has the potential to deliver data and information services at both lower costs and with more advanced functionality for both legacy and modern smart grid power distribution substations and cables enabling network operators to drive down their operating and capital costs to benefit customers whilst driving towards net zero targets. There is a strong market pull for such a device from these sectors with a potential avalanche of applications driven by the need to facilitate active network management to provide real-time support for intermittent low carbon generation, electric vehicles, and decarbonised space and water heating -- all necessary to decarbonise the economy in line with the Government's Clean Growth Strategy and to meet the legal requirement to achieve net zero in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050\. COVID19 has put immense pressure on almost all of the economy. As a result, many asset-based companies now have financial pressures, resource issues, operational restrictions changes to demand peaks and profiles and work backlogs. Additionally, there is a requirement to do more with existing infrastructure with fewer resources while improving sustainability and reducing carbon related emissions and minimising costs so as to limit the burden on energy and other users. A step change in operational strategies is needed to fulfil these requirements. KlikPower is directly focused on the achievement of this by providing systems that deliver a step-change. Create Innovation Solutions Ltd. is an SME that specialises in scoping innovation and is working on this project with the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) at Loughborough University.