decarbonisation

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

5G ‘smart’ substation rollout creating extra room for renewables

Peter Papasotiriou, innovation programme manager at UK Power Networks (UKPN), discusses the firm’s creation of ‘smart’ substations in tandem with Vodafone and their potential impact on the drive towards net zero.

12/01/2022

Analysis

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

Ones to watch: standout projects from WPD’s 2021 Innovation Showcase

Western Power Distribution’s (WPD) latest Innovation Showcase offered the firm’s innovation team a chance to provide updates and insight into its recent work before the turn of the year. Here, innovation engineer Ryan Huxtable runs though the highlights.

15/12/2021

Comment

Mapping out the role of V2G in energy flexibility

With intelligent energy platform Kaluza recently pledging carbon negativity by 2030, the firm reflected on the progress made during EV hook up Project Sciurus, where the firm’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) plans go next and how the technology can be a key enabler of energy flexibility on the road to net zero.

03/12/2021

Analysis

Meet the Innovators: Steve Kaye, UKWIR

After more than 30 years in the utilities sector, UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) CEO Steve Kaye reflects on the optimum conditions for innovation and the importance of shifting mindsets from new to renew.

02/12/2021

Interviews

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

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

Meet the Innovators: David Watson, Cadent Gas

David Watson – Cadent Gas’ head of energy transition – discusses the role of curiosity, openness and agility in sector innovation.

15/11/2021

Interviews

Meet the Innovators: Yasmin Ali, BEIS

UW Innovate caught up with Yasmin Ali – energy innovation project manager at BEIS – to reflect on her 11 years in utilities ahead of her appearance at Utility Week’s Adapting for Net Zero Conference 2021.

10/11/2021

Interviews

A glass half full? The outlook for innovation in drinking water quality

Amid a rising tide of new commitments and changing customer behaviours, experts gathered at Utility Week Innovate’s Drinking Water Quality Conference to tap into the industry’s innovation pipeline.

04/11/2021

Analysis

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