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NET WORK SYSTEMS NETWORK / 40 / MAY 2019 alongside project partners across innovation projects and its market leading suite of flexible connections which have been developed thanks to the knowledge gained from the ANM systems development and feedback from customers. With big changes ahead and an increasingly complex technical and commercial environment, ANM systems need to be adaptable, flexible, secure, scalable and capable of providing enhanced, intelligent monitoring and control capabili - ties across our networks. Electricity networks are changing, rapidly. The need to reduce carbon emissions, to future proof networks for chal - lenges such as electric vehicles Providing flexibility Alex Howison (flexibility solutions manager) and John Stapleton (ICT project engineering manager) from Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) talk about the network operator's role in delivering active network management systems fit for the future. S ince the 2009 devel- opment and instal- lation of the UK's first Active Network Management (ANM) system as part of the Orkney Registered Power Zone (RPZ) project, SSEN has sought to maintain its position as a leader on ANM systems. The Northern Isles New En - MP = Measure- ment Point, DER = Distributed Energy Resource. ergy Solutions (NINES) project launched in 2013, marked an important step forward in this journey, and it remains one of the most advanced systems in the UK, capable of managing multiple generators and a suite of flexible demand connections to maximise generation output. SSEN is continuing this evolution of ANM systems