Climate Change

Royal de-commission: Reconfiguring London’s water during a £25m reservoir upgrade

Storing around 10% of the capital’s water, the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Reservoir being under maintenance for the best part of 2021 necessitated an urgent shake-up of London’s water. Here, project leaders from Thames Water discuss the process of taking the reservoir out of action and £25 million worth of upgrades.

14/01/2022

Analysis

Innovation round-up: smart meter ‘blackspots’, priority services registers and recycling EV batteries

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’.

14/01/2022

News

Innovation trends for 2022: From ‘all grown-up’ AI to hyper-automation

Following on from the success of Northumbrian Water’s fifth Innovation Festival, head of innovation Angela MacOscar identifies ten standout innovation trends for the water sector in 2022.

11/01/2022

Comment

Green gas: Re-wilding Cadent sites

Nick Tavernor joined Cadent towards the end of 2019 as its first site husbandry supervisor. His job is to ensure safety and operational capability can co-exist in harmony with the flora and fauna also found at each of its sites. He explains more here.

10/01/2022

Comment

Focus on data and digitalisation spearheading WPD drive towards net zero

Western Power Distribution’s Jon Berry tells Utility Week Innovate how digitalisation and an open, ‘data first’, mindset can play crucial roles in fostering low carbon innovation across the energy sector.

05/01/2022

Comment

Icebreaker One: baseline data plumbing for an open energy sector

Icebreaker One CEO Gavin Starks explains how lessons in standardisation and data sharing from open banking can drive the energy sector towards net zero – and empower it to harness an explosion of green innovation.

20/12/2021

Interviews

Lessons from the first year of Ofwat’s Innovation Fund

Harry Armstrong, Ofwat’s director of regulatory policy, reflects on creativity and collaboration from the first 12 months of the regulator’s Innovation Fund.

10/12/2021

Analysis

Meet the Innovators: Kieran Brocklebank, United Utilities

United Utilities’ head of innovation, Kieran Brocklebank, reflects on a quarter of a century at the company, canine collaboration, and the need to focus on customer comms.

08/12/2021

Interviews

What UK water firms could learn from going Dutch

Considered among the world’s best protected deltas, the Netherlands is a global leader in water industry innovation. Experts driving the pioneering sector’s circular economy and sustainable solutions shared their insight.

08/12/2021

Analysis

Integrating climate adaptation into asset management ‘business as usual’

In the wake of Storm Arwen, Utility Week Innovate takes a sector-wide snapshot of innovation in climate adaptation including a recent collaboration between National Grid and the Met Office.

30/11/2021

Analysis

Water Industry Innovation Conference: cultural transformation and game-changing technology

Utility Week Innovate WWT’s upcoming Water Industry Innovation Conference seeks to foster collaborative problem solving, learning and proactive thinking in the face of global challenges.

22/11/2021

Market insight

Is water ‘well ahead’ of COP?

Experts from the water sector share their thoughts on how and where innovation can boost post-COP progress and discuss whether or not the industry is already ahead of the conference’s collaborative curve.

18/11/2021

Analysis

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