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Calisen to acquire 1.3m smart meters

Smart metering company Calisen been awarded preferred bidder status on a portfolio of 1.3 million units. This takes its total pipeline for 2025 to 13.2 million smart meters.

Weekend press round-up: What’s in Johnson’s 10-point green plan?

In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, there is speculation about the contents of this week’s update on the prime minister’s vision for a “green industrial revolution”. There is also analysis of what a Joe Biden presidency will mean for net zero, whether the UK is really investing enough in tackling climate change and National Grid’s recent supply margin warnings.

Calls for greater clarity on CSO discharges

#AskUsAnything: Countdown to COP26

Ofwat to set out innovation funding plans at Utility Week Live Online

Creating virtual driveways

If electric vehicles are to dominate the UK’s highways and byways then it is essential the charging infrastructure is accessible to all. That means finding a solution for the estimated eight million drivers in the UK who do not have access to off-street parking. Utility Week explores an innovative approach to this problem, which seeks to avoid tensions created by excessive street furniture.

Coronavirus detected in London sewage in February

Early warning signs of Covid-19 can be identified in sewage, trials have shown, with the first incidence of the virus in London’s wastewater appearing before cases were confirmed there.

Kwarteng: I don’t see the problem on returns

Kwasi Kwarteng has rebutted suggestions that investors will be put off UK energy infrastructure by Ofgem’s drive to curb network returns. In his keynote address at Utility Week’s Build Back Better Forum the energy minister said he was confident Ofgem would reach a settlement with energy networks that incentivises backers.

A decade of rapid change: UKPN turns 10

UK Power Networks was formed in 2010 and since then has been part of a number of an evolution of the energy system, aimed at delivering clean power to customers’ homes. Leading engineers at the company share their views on what has changed - and what the next ten years is likely to hold.