Energy Telecommunications User Group (ETUG)

 

Contacts for this group:

Paul Smith

icon-email.jpg mailto:paul.smith@energynetworks.org

ETUG Members: Click here to login and access ETUG documents and archive

Consultants:

Raymond Calvert: IPSIOE & EITC Secretary and official Consultant to theENA
raymond.calvert @ enaconsulting.org

Brian Baker: Optical Fibre and Cable specialist and official Consultant to theENA
icon-email.jpgbrian @ esitel.co.uk

John Ryan: PLC specialist and official Consultant to theENA
icon-email.jpgjryan @ iee.org

ETUG activities:

IT and Telecommunication services know no boundaries and provide the main platforms for the majority of the Energy Industries regulatory, compliance, cost cutting and efficiency initiatives.

The ENA Energy Telecommunications Users Group (ETUG) acts in a co-ordinating and facilitating capacity to assist Member Companies in achieving the common goal of 'best in class' in the field of Operational IT and Telecommunications services. This demands that excellent channels of communication are established within member companies and at the ENA.

Through communication and co-operation, ETUG and its associated groups will endeavour to assist member companies make informed decisions on issues that are likely to affect any aspect of their essential Operational IT and Telecommunications Asset base.

Objectives:

  • In essence, the Group provides a focus for liaison, co-ordination and information in areas that member Companies identify as being of mutual concern or benefit. These activities are brought about and directed through a framework established by the Energy Networks Association (ENA) Board comprising a number of committees and task groups managed by the ETUG Telecommunications Co-ordinator, in addition to a range of advisory services and initiatives provided by the Group.
  • To help promote the interests, growth, good standing and competitiveness of the UK energy networks industry's Operational Telecommunications and IT services in the UK and overseas.
  • To help provide a forum for discussion among company members and others of Telecom and IT issues that concern or may affect the interests of UK energy networks industry and to disseminate and transmit informed opinion on these matters to Ofgem, Ofcom, government departments, in particular DTI, and other institutions in the UK and the European Union.
  • To help promote and protect the common Telecom and IT interests of the members of ENA.
  • To help monitor, influence and campaign for or against prices, policies, proposals, decisions, and legislative or regulatory instruments of government, suppliers, or other institutions which may affect the Telecom and IT requirements of the UK energy networks industry.


ETUG 2006 Programme of events: Legacy information
ETUG 2007 Programme of events: Legacy information
ETUG 2008 Programme of events: Legacy information
ETUG 2009 Programme of events: Legacy Information

 

ETUG 2010 Programme of events:

ETUG www.energynetworks.org/etug

  • Tba: ETUG meeting 43
  • Tba: ETUG meeting 44

NGN www.energynetworks.org/ngn

  • Note - all NGN activities now transferred to EITC workstream

EITC www.energynetworks.org/eitc

  • 27th January 2010: EITC_50 meeting
  • 16th June 2010: EITC_51 meeting
  • 27th October 2010: EITC_49 meeting (provisional)

IPSIOE www.energynetworks.org/ipsioe

  • 24th February 2010: IPSIOE_19 meeting
  • 10th June 2010: IPSIOE_20 meeting (provisional)
  • 20th October 2010: IPSIOE_21 meeting (provisional)

CS5 www.energynetworks.org/cs5

  • Tba: CS5_58 meeting

PLC www.energynetworks.org/plc

  • Tba

JRC Representation www.energynetworks.org/jrc-rep

 

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Structure: Click here for a structural diagram and to find out more about the groups