Vital Energi managing director Mike Cooke sheds light on the next phase of a £45 million pound low-carbon heat network in Leeds fuelled by the city’s waste.
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Alex Howard, product manager for DSO market platform, at UK Power Networks (UKPN) outlines how the company plans to make it easier and more rewarding to participate in local flexibility markets and discusses its recently launched consultation.
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National Grid has completed the first stage of a £130 million project to refurbish its overhead line network between Lincoln and Stevenage.
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Experts exploring measures to support vulnerable customers through the ongoing energy and cost of living crises discuss the heightened engagement levels among those bearing the brunt of fuel poverty and warn that socially minded – “less techy” – innovation shouldn’t be overlooked in reaching them.
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Abhishek Vinod Singh, chief executive officer and co-founder of AiDash, discusses how his firm has helped utilities harness satellites and AI to improve resilience, efficiency and sustainability, and explores the climate challenge facing the sector.
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Plans to construct a nuclear reactor fueled by molten salt by the end of the decade have been unveiled. The developers claim that each 500MW plant could take two years to build.
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The energy revolution is underway. Top-down, linear energy systems are becoming relics of a bygone age. In their place, we’re seeing dynamic bi-directional flows of energy, a proliferation of decentralised assets, and the beginnings of a future energy system that – if it is to be clean, reliable and resilient – must put people at its centre.
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As Affinity Water completes solar array pilots at its Chertsey and Walton treatment works, the firm’s head of energy management Greg Cameron reflects on the challenge of developing a new energy strategy to simultaneously drive performance and weather the highest increase in bills on record.
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Midlothian Energy Limited – a 50/50 joint venture between Midlothian Council and Vattenfall Heat UK – has earmarked £100 million to deliver low-carbon energy projects to the Lothians over the next five years.
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With calls for energy efficiency reaching fever pitch, Ian Hutchcroft examines why the UK needs to rethink retrofit, what lessons can be taken from Dutch standard and funding approach 'Energiesprong', and how the utilities sector can play a central role in making it work.
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A new Scottish Water-backed treatment plant and distribution network is coming on stream in the Scottish Highlands. Utility Week Innovate explores a raft of joint venture-led innovation four years in the pipeline.
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Project delivery experts from Hitachi Energy, Cadent and Anglian Water reflect on some of the key areas through which utilities can transform capital delivery in line with net zero aspirations.
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