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1.13.14

Release notes for August 2024

Updated over 8 months ago

We’ve been busy over the summer working on new features and enhancements. Here’s our roundup of updates to LENZA in July and August:

Headroom Updates

The Bulk Supply Point and Primary substation supply area datasets have been updated to include:

  • Generation headroom

  • The total contracted MVA waiting to connect already in the connections queue

  • Where available: an estimate of the MVA expected to be released and the year SSEN expects to make this additional capacity available.

You can find these datasets (including the new data fields) in Map> Data > Utility Networks and Projects

SP Energy Networks Data

Local authority areas supplied by both SP Energy Networks and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks can now view headroom data from both utilities at the primary substation level. We’re also working on bringing you visibility of the secondary substation level in the next release!

Sharing existing plans and forecasts with my DNO

Users can now explicitly choose to share datasets/files with their Distribution Network Operator. This is intended to enable users to share plans, policies and other relevant items with their DNO. You can access this via Map>Upload>Upload and share an existing plan or forecast.

Don’t worry you can still upload private datasets as usual via ‘Upload Data’ which will not be shared.

Enhancement: Applying recommended settings when using bulk selection

To make it easier to build projects using the Renewable Potential datasets integrated with the platform, users can now choose to 'Apply recommended settings' when building a project with ‘Bulk Selection’. This will deploy an asset to all buildings in the selected area where Overall Suitability is True and will even deploy the asset with the recommended size.

Adding configs and multiple datasets to a single data story section

Data story creators are now able to add multiple datasets to a single Map entry and set custom configurations for each dataset - such as overlay order, fill colour and stroke. This makes it easier to build up a story about a potential development site or rationale for a plan.

URL based navigation improvements

You can now directly link other users to pages within the application. This will allow users clicking on links within emails or links shared by others to direct them straight to the relevant page after login.

Previously users were always navigated to the Home page regardless of URL.

Enhancements and fixes

Some general visual enhancements and bug fixes, including:

  • On Data Stories, creators no longer need to click 'Save' on each individual section; now, the global 'Save and Publish' button will save all sections simultaneously.

  • Project carbon assessments are now provided per address in exports

  • County users can now run scenarios more consistently. Previously dataset sizes could result in this timing out

  • Resolved an intermittent bug where adding datasets to a project interferes with the deployment of assets

  • Resolved a bug that led to exports being generated multiple times for filtered datasets

As always, you can find ‘how-to’ guides and video guides in the LENZA Knowledgebase, as well as Live Chat support.

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