decarbonisation

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

Eon drones begin ‘inside-out’ home and energy health assessments

Energy firm Eon and Nationwide Drones have jointly launched drone and laser scanner-led home ‘health assessments’ – which they claim can gauge solar, heat pump and insulation suitability in under an hour – and outlined ambitions to harness drone tech across ‘all survey requirements’.

06/06/2022

News

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

Interviews

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

News

Utility Week Live 2022 in pictures: Driving fresh mindsets for new challenges

Utility Week Live 2022 returned to deliver its biggest content programme ever, with more than 2,200 people attending to watch a host of fascinating sessions and engage with innovative exhibitors.

20/05/2022

News

Water Industry Awards Rising Stars: ‘We need to stop seeing nature as the unconscious victim and start seeing it as the solution’

Craig Hopkinson, sustainability manager at Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance – and Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee – talks through the role of nature-based solutions in addressing a wide range of crises.

19/05/2022

Interviews

Meet the Innovators: Carolina Tortora, National Grid

National Grid’s head of innovation strategy and digital transformation, Carolina Tortora, reflects on her professional background in rocket science and club promoting alongside a 13-year stint in the utilities sector.

16/05/2022

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

News

From ‘re-meandered’ rivers to pollinator super highways: how are utilities innovating to support healthy and functional ecosystems?

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.

13/05/2022

Analysis

Redcar and Ellesmere Port shortlisted to host the UK’s first hydrogen village

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.

12/05/2022

News

Pace of customer-facing energy innovation threatened by price control strategising

Ahead of the Energy Innovation Center’s (EIC) new look Energy Innovation Showcase and Awards, managing director Denise Massey discusses the influences of a pandemic-driven sense of empathy, and the ‘long shadow’ being cast by price control, on sector progress.

03/05/2022

Interviews

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