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Saving costs and carbon with data-driven network asset management

Data-driven maintenance and asset management will improve both the customer experience and long-term sustainability. But collecting and managing data comes with costs that can be hard to swallow. Panelists at Utility Week Live Summit, and participants in the workshop session, looked at different use cases and the best way to build a business case.

06/07/2021

Analysis

Using data, digitisation and drones to meet tough biodiversity targets

Adding biodiversity to sites is already a goal for most utilities, but soon they will be working to a tough new target of 10% biodiversity net gains under the Environment Bill. Katie Dawson, Costain’s lead on Geographical Information Systems for the environment, explains what’s involved.

17/06/2021

Interviews

Utilities have high hopes for drone use

As they look to cut operational costs, energy and water companies are turning to drones for inspection and monitoring. Stephen Cousins reports.

21/02/2020

Analysis

Drone patrols to curb illegal water abstractions

24/07/2019

News

Making sense of data is key to managing sector’s aging infrastructure

Martin Richards, of OpenText, argues that enterprise asset management is the key to profitability in an energy industry that has to handle an exponentially expanding stream of operational data.

15/07/2019

Opinion

Severn Trent trials taxi drivers to detect leaks

The water industry has been stepping up efforts to tackle leakage with technology such as drones and satellites and now Severn Trent has added taxi drivers to the list.

12/03/2019

News

Thames Water takes aerial view to tackle leaks

Thames Water has launched a three-pronged aerial attack in its hunt to find and fix leaky pipes to get back on track with its leakage targets by 2020.

20/08/2018

News

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