Climate Change

Network resilience: Mitigating the threats of today and tomorrow

As distribution network operators (DNOs) ready themselves for RIIO-ED2, a new report from Utility Week and Megger explores the role technology can play in ensuring safe, reliable and sustainable electricity supply and weathering a raft of ever-changing asset management challenges.

17/06/2022

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Energy price rise yields ‘best-ever opportunity’ to innovate for customer efficiency

The unprecedented rise in energy prices has, according to Utilita founder and CEO Bill Bullen, created a ‘best-ever opportunity’ for the Government and energy suppliers alike to encourage energy efficient customer behaviour.

15/06/2022

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Meet the Innovators: Wayne Bridger, BOC

Wayne Bridger, UK sales manager, decarbonisation and hydrogen applications at BOC UK & Ireland, discusses his involvement in mobilising industrial gas firm BOC’s largest ever hydrogen supply chain, and the drive for a ‘no regrets’ pathway to decarbonisation.

15/06/2022

Interviews

Minecraft link-up schooling new players in net zero transition

Skewb Climate managing director Ruta Blazeviciute explains how collaboration between the digital education firm and utilities are levelling up climate and social outreach among the next generation via bespoke video games.

15/06/2022

Analysis

Digging 32km of ‘Power Tunnels’ beneath London

Project director Gareth Burden lifts the lid on National Grid’s efforts to rewire London for the next 120 years by burying a 32.5km network asset beneath the capital.

14/06/2022

Analysis

‘Scotland’s first’ plastic-to-hydrogen power plant given green light

Plans for a £20m facility to turn waste plastic into hydrogen and support the UK’s energy transition have been rubber stamped by West Dunbartonshire Council.

09/06/2022

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Meet the Innovators, Tim Whitworth, National Nuclear Laboratory

The National Nuclear Laboratory’s head of innovation, Tim Whitworth, looks ahead to the UK’s first new nuclear rollout in a generation and the looming ‘mindset shift’ around AI in nuclear.

27/05/2022

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New partnership to accelerate offshore wind innovation

The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) has teamed up with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in an effort to encourage innovation in offshore wind.

26/05/2022

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NIC: We’re not going to ‘build our way out of climate change’

National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chief executive James Heath argues it is neither possible nor desirable to avoid all climate risks, saying: “The idea that we’re going to build our way out of climate change doesn’t seem realistic."

20/05/2022

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Drax submits application to expand Cruachan ‘hollow mountain’ power station

Renewable energy firm Drax has applied for planning consent to more than double the electricity generating capacity at its Cruachan facility in Scotland.

17/05/2022

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Water Industry Awards Rising Stars: ‘I’m excited about the prospect of developing more low carbon solutions’

Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee, Stantec civil engineer Sam Mullaney, discusses his work under the Living with Water Partnership and the prospect of developing more low carbon solutions.

17/05/2022

Interviews

Gemserv: having feet held to the fire as a B Corp will ‘undoubtedly’ drive innovation

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.

16/05/2022

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