Vision

EPSRC agreed in October 2006 that the consortium should take forward its challenging research agenda for a further four years commencing in October 2007, in a £7m project to deliver energy that is secure, clean and affordable.

FlexNet will put in place a substantial body of work that will build on the achievements of FutureNet and lay out the major steps, technical, economic, market design, public acceptance and others, that will lead to flexible networks, including starting to showcase these so that they can be taken up by the commercial sector, Government and Regulators for practical implementation.

The name FlexNet provides linkage to the first FutureNet programme whilst recognising the distinctive aspects of the work now to be done, and 'Thinking Networks' emphasises the consortium's intention to both 'think about networks', and to develop networks that can 'think' for themselves.

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