Energy Telecommunications User Group (ETUG)

 

Contacts for this group:

Jack Walles
Consultant
icon-email.jpg jack.walles @ 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:

ETUG www.energynetworks.org/etug

  • 1st April2009: ETUG meeting 41
  • 16th September 2009: ETUG meeting 42

NGN www.energynetworks.org/ngn

  • 21st January 2009: NGN meeting with Ofgem 
  • 4th March 2009: NGN meeting 08 + BT working group on NGN

EITC www.energynetworks.org/eitc

  • 12th February 2009: EITC meeting 47
  • 19th August 2009: EITC meeting 48 (provisional)
  • 10th November 2009: EITC meeting 49 (provisional)

IPSIOE www.energynetworks.org/ipsioe

  • 25th February 2009: IPSIOE meeting 16
  • 11th June 2009: IPSIOEmeeting 17 (provisional)
  • 21st October 2009: IPSIOE meeting 18(provisional)

CS5 www.energynetworks.org/cs5

  • 2nd April 2009: CS5_56 meeting

PLC www.energynetworks.org/plc

JRC Representation www.energynetworks.org/jrc-rep

 

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