text: Ofgem formally relaxes accuracy requirement for Calorific Value Determining Devices | LNG Industry
  LNG Industry, Monday, 24 April 2017 11:08
  Orbital Gas Systems Ltd (Orbital), has received notification that, effective 13 April 2017, the Gas and Electrical Market Authority (Ofgem), the UK's energy regulator and internationally recognised energy authority, had formally relaxed the accuracy requirement of Ofgem-approved CVDDs to 0.2 MJ/m3 (approximately 0.5%).
  Such a proposal was received by Ofgem from "Northern Gas Networks (NGN), which proposed a new CVDD, the GasPT2, and the relaxation of the current accuracy requirements to 0.2 MJ/m3 (approx. 0.5%)." The NGN proposal was accompanied by "the GasPT2 Technical Note to Energy Regulators on behalf of Orbital Gas Systems, UK in support of the approval of the GasPT2 CVDD."
  Orbital's vice president of sales (UK), Neil Stuchbury, said, "We are exceptionally pleased with Ofgem's recognition of this innovative solution and support of the wider industry afforded in this consultation, as the device at the forefront is GasPT. Within the UK, regulated CVDDs are utilized at more than 150 locations to assess the CV of gas entering or transferring between networks. In real terms, this equates to potentially providing energy data to circa 17 million domestic, industrial and commercial customers. This is an historic change by the UK regulator, having supported the previous accuracy requirements for more than 40 years, and a change we are very proud to have been at the heart of."
  Read the article online at: https://www.lngindustry.com/liquid-natural-gas/24042017/ofgem-formally-relaxes-accuracy-requirement-for-calorific-value-determining-devices/