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GOVERNMENT & INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS 186 UTILITY WEEK ENERGY SUPPLY HANDBOOK 2014 The Joint Radio Company Ltd Dean Bradley House, 52 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AF Tel: 020 7706 5199 Fax: 020 7222 4862 Email: info@jrc.co.uk Website: www.jrc.co.uk The Joint Radio Company Ltd (JRC) is a joint venture between National Grid and the Energy Networks Association established to manage the industries' radio spectrum allocations. These services provide vital communications facilities for generation, transmission and distribution companies. JRC also provides strategic advice on telecommunications, especially radio, and is active in a number of European and global bodies to promote the interests of UK utilities in the realm of spectrum harmonisation and international standards. JRC provides a range of services including: • Spectrum for mobile services, primariliy for vehicles and personnel on large sites, increasingly extending beyond simple voice communications to data transmission, M2M, asset tracking, automatic vehicle location, etc. • Telemetry links to provide remote monitoring, status and condition of networks together with remote switching to reconfigure or control networks from central control centres for SCADA and smart grids • Advice on remote meter reading for data collection and monitoring usage of resources • Planning microwave links used as part of the infrastructure either to link elements of the mobile or scanning telemetry systems, or to provide trunk telecommunications within the area of the utility • Radio links for teleprotection • Coordination between radio links and windfarms, including mitigation schemes where required • Strategic consultancy and project management. Board members Chairman David Smith 020 7706 5199 Director Jeremy Bending 020 7706 5199 Director Phil Green 020 7706 5199 Director Philip Johnson 020 7706 5199 Company Secretary & Office Manager Anita Lad 020 7706 5199 Senior personnel Managing Director Adrian Grilli 020 7706 5195 Manager, Mobile Radio & Information Systems Simon Parsons 020 7706 5192 Manager, Fixed Services & Scanning Telemetry David Priestley 020 7706 5193 Radio propagation specialist Peter Swan 020 7706 5191 Licensing Manager Chas Griffin 020 7706 5190 Windfarm Coordination Manager Keith Brogden 020 7706 5197 Windfarm Coordination Adviser Alessandra Lees 020 7706 5196 Project Manager Nick Woollard 020 7706 5194 Project Director Ted Aksamit 07976 879870