Vital Energi managing director Mike Cooke sheds light on the next phase of a £45 million pound low-carbon heat network in Leeds fuelled by the city’s waste.
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Alex Howard, product manager for DSO market platform, at UK Power Networks (UKPN) outlines how the company plans to make it easier and more rewarding to participate in local flexibility markets and discusses its recently launched consultation.
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Plans to construct a nuclear reactor fueled by molten salt by the end of the decade have been unveiled. The developers claim that each 500MW plant could take two years to build.
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Vattenfall has agreed a contract for Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions to deliver grid connection infrastructure for the 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm, 47 kilometres off the Norfolk coast.
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As Affinity Water completes solar array pilots at its Chertsey and Walton treatment works, the firm’s head of energy management Greg Cameron reflects on the challenge of developing a new energy strategy to simultaneously drive performance and weather the highest increase in bills on record.
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United Utilities and tech firm Changemaker 3D have demonstrated the use of 3D printed concrete components – or ‘printfrastructure’ – in what’s being slated as a first for the UK water sector.
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With calls for energy efficiency reaching fever pitch, Ian Hutchcroft examines why the UK needs to rethink retrofit, what lessons can be taken from Dutch standard and funding approach 'Energiesprong', and how the utilities sector can play a central role in making it work.
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A new Scottish Water-backed treatment plant and distribution network is coming on stream in the Scottish Highlands. Utility Week Innovate explores a raft of joint venture-led innovation four years in the pipeline.
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Project delivery experts from Hitachi Energy, Cadent and Anglian Water reflect on some of the key areas through which utilities can transform capital delivery in line with net zero aspirations.
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Mike de Silva, head of sustainability at construction firm Clancy, discusses the need for alternative solutions, data sharing and cultural change around carbon and energy intensive building materials if utilities are to hit net zero targets.
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Six projects to develop advanced modular reactors in the UK have each been offered up to half-a-million pounds in funding by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
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Technology firm Isle Utilities – winner of consultancy of the year at the Water Industry Awards 2022 – shares updates and key learnings from four trials taking place as part of its Trial Reservoir initiative.
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