On the back of Utility Week Live 2022, Utility Week editor James Wallin sat down with Aimie Chapple, Capita Experience CEO, to gauge her thoughts on the challenges discussed over the two days and solutions presented.
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DevicePilot CEO, Pilgrim Beart – founder of the platform which eventually became British Gas’ Hive – outlines how he believes the UK smart energy sector can best weather a ‘perfect’ storm in H2 2022.
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Hydrogen UK CEO, Clare Jackson, reflects on the trade body’s launch, ‘Jazzy Shirt Mondays’ and the need to move away from ‘silo-ism’ to hit industry targets.
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Consumers' choices must be limited to a degree if the UK is to achieve its net zero ambitions, a senior industry figure has argued. Speaking during a panel session on the decarbonisation at Utility Week Live on Tuesday (17 May), Vattenfall head of partnerships Noah Nkonge sought to qualify suggestions that consumers should have free choice over the type of heating they use, warning: “If everybody gets to choose every little thing then things like heat networks are really difficult to deliver.”
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Amid clamour for smarter cities and a green industrial revolution, Utility Week Innovate showcases five modern utility projects ensuring the foundations of tomorrow’s smart cities can match the durability and ambition of those laid by Victorians more than a century ago.
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Ahead of discussions around working towards a ‘just’ transition and best-in-class customer service at Utility Week Live, Utility Week Innovate explores some of the digital projects helping firms respond to the ‘dynamic’ nature of vulnerability.
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The machine uprising isn’t confined to hi-tech labs or the silver screen, it’s taking place in our pipes, water courses, wind turbines and street works. As such, Utility Week Innovate profiles five robotic innovations ahead of Utility Week Live.
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National Grid’s head of innovation strategy and digital transformation, Anna Carolina Tortora, reflects on her professional background in rocket science and club promoting alongside a 13-year stint in the utilities sector.
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Jacobs and Morrison Energy Services joint venture, J1M, has been awarded contracts to support a trio of substation projects under National Grid’s six-year Substations Engineering Procurement Construction Framework.
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While a review into the electricity networks’ response to November's Storm Arwen is ongoing, the sector is already exploring how lessons learned can help to boost the response to future extreme weather. The ENA's head of innovation, Dan Clarke, talks to Utility Week about the role of demonstration projects in improving network resilience by allowing DNOs to robustly trial and test the validity of new technologies and solutions in a safe environment.
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Energy consultancy Mesh Energy, water tech firm Shayp, and clean energy marketplace Squeaky Clean Energy discuss the platform for innovation and collaboration offered by B Corp accreditation.
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The latest Innovate round-up includes news of a hybrid boiler collaboration involving SGN and UK Power Networks and work beginning on a £30 million water research centre from South West Water and the University of Exeter.
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The latest innovation news round-up includes updates on SF6, low carbon concrete and hydrogen tech trials by National Grid, BEIS awarding floating wind innovators close to £32m and British Gas announcing its first mass market air source heat pump.
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National Grid’s head of innovation strategy and digital transformation, Anna Carolina Tortora, reflects on her professional background in rocket science and club promoting alongside a 13-year stint in the utilities sector.
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Redcar and Ellesmere Port-based projects have been named by energy regulator Ofgem and the government as potential sites of the UK’s first hydrogen village.
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AI firm Fyld scooped both the Innovator of the Year and Best Digital Innovation awards at the Energy Innovation Centre’s (EIC) new look annual showpiece, the Energy Innovation Showcase & Awards.
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More closely scrutinising its environmental impact and outcomes as a newly accredited B Corp will fuel innovation in the utilities sector and elsewhere according to professional services firm and Triple Point Heat Networks Investment Management partner, Gemserv.
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While the utility sector’s creative minds are pulling up trees to fuel the energy transition, decarbonise and innovate around water supply, firms’ green strategies incorporate far broader schemes than simply replanting them.
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Jacobs and Morrison Energy Services joint venture, J1M, has been awarded contracts to support a trio of substation projects under National Grid’s six-year Substations Engineering Procurement Construction Framework.
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Green energy entrepreneurs striving to cut the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels have the chance to bring their innovations to life thanks to £10 million funding through the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.
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The latest Innovate round-up includes news of a hybrid boiler collaboration involving SGN and UK Power Networks and work beginning on a £30 million water research centre from South West Water and the University of Exeter.
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Two years into Optimise Prime – a trial involving up to 4,000 commercial vehicles and partners including Uber and Royal Mail – hopes are high that insights gleaned can create a ‘replicable gold standard’ for the global EV rollout and drive innovation to manage a reshaped load curve.
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More closely scrutinising its environmental impact and outcomes as a newly accredited B Corp will fuel innovation in the utilities sector and elsewhere according to professional services firm and Triple Point Heat Networks Investment Management partner, Gemserv.
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Redcar and Ellesmere Port-based projects have been named by energy regulator Ofgem and the government as potential sites of the UK’s first hydrogen village.
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Centrica will begin a controllable storage heater demand-side response trial using Elexon’s Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Sandbox in September following approval by Ofgem.
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Utility Week Innovate’s first round-up of 2022 features Veolia’s first UK electric vehicle battery recycling facility, pan-utility efforts to improve priority services register support, and plans to trial solutions to smart meter ‘blackspots’.
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The challenge of scaling up the smart meter roll-out is shared across gas, water and electricity companies. As the panel debate and workshop at the Utility Week Live Summit discussed, smart meters prepare consumers for the changes to come on the net zero journey. But is there are also a case for using the energy sector's new dual band communications network for smart water meters too? Read on to hear more about delegates' views.
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The latest Innovate round-up highlights £29.9 million in funding awarded to SGN to test the use of high-pressure pipelines for hydrogen, a ‘smart load management’ pilot by E.ON, and news that Ofwat has proposed running its innovation competition beyond its original timeframe.
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Utility Week Innovate’s latest round-up includes news of Severn Trent sending scouts to northern Europe on the hunt for new innovation, EDF lining up a green hydrogen plant in the Tees Valley area, and British Gas completing the first installation under its new mass market air-source heat pump offering.
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The latest round-up of utility industry innovation includes a customer experience digital twin from Northumbrian Water, plans for a ‘hydrogen town’ in the Humber region and an update on London’s ‘super sewer’.
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Utility Week Innovate’s latest round-up features water sector updates from M2M, South East and Northumbrian, as well as news of a domestic flexibility trial involving 1.4 million customers from National Grid and Octopus.
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Ahead of the WWT Wastewater 2022 Conference, Innovate’s round-up includes updates on bathing water disinfection projects from Anglian and Yorkshire Water. Elsewhere Drax, WPD and Sembcorp provided project news.
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In a first weekly round-up of innovation project news, the East Coast Hydrogen Consortium unveils a feasibility report on adapting north east England’s gas network for hydrogen, EDF and Veolia announce a vitrification rollout and Severn Trent captures carbon from sewage treatment.
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Utility Week Innovate’s latest round-up features water sector updates from M2M, South East and Northumbrian, as well as news of a domestic flexibility trial involving 1.4 million customers from National Grid and Octopus.
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Ahead of the WWT Wastewater 2022 Conference, Innovate’s round-up includes updates on bathing water disinfection projects from Anglian and Yorkshire Water. Elsewhere Drax, WPD and Sembcorp provided project news.
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