Internet of Things

Meet the Innovators: Anna Carolina Tortora, National Grid

National Grid’s head of innovation strategy and digital transformation, Anna 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

Collaborative thinking central to ‘paradigm shift’ in network communications

A recent Utility Week webinar brought together energy networks to explore the urgent requirement for operational telecommunications infrastructure fit to handle an explosion of interconnected assets and offer resilience during the energy transition.

10/05/2022

News

Fyld named Innovator of the Year by EIC

AI firm Fyld scooped both the Innovator of the Year and Best Digital Innovation awards at the Energy Innovation Centre’s (EIC) new look annual showpiece, the Energy Innovation Showcase & Awards.

06/05/2022

News

Customer vulnerability ‘not a fixed state’: five AI, data and digital innovations driven by the Cost of Living crisis

Ahead of discussions around working towards a ‘just’ transition and best-in-class customer service at Utility Week Live, Utility Week Innovate explores some of the digital projects helping firms respond to the ‘dynamic’ nature of vulnerability.

06/05/2022

Analysis

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

In pictures: chainsaw-wielding roadworks robot set for trial

The result of a £7 million transatlantic collaboration, the Robotic Roadworks and Excavation System, or RRES, was put through its paces before industry stakeholders ahead of a trial in Epsom, Surrey.

03/05/2022

News

Centrica to become second regulatory sandbox user for flexibility service trial

Centrica will begin a controllable storage heater demand-side response trial using Elexon’s Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Sandbox in September following approval by Ofgem.

26/04/2022

News

Water Industry Awards 2022: finalists revealed

Finalists in the 19 categories comprising the 2022 Water Industry Awards have been announced.

25/04/2022

News

Meet the innovators: Dale Colley, Altitude Thinking

Ahead of the 2022 Energy Innovation Awards, Utility Week Innovate catches up with young innovator of the year nominee and inventor of the Aquabot – a robot created to measure water pollution in real time – Dale Colley.

22/04/2022

Interviews

Do androids dream of electric heat? Introducing the robots infiltrating utilities

The machine uprising isn’t confined to hi-tech labs or the silver screen, it’s taking place in our pipes, water courses, wind turbines and street works. As such, Utility Week Innovate profiles five robotic innovations ahead of Utility Week Live.

22/04/2022

Analysis

Lessons from Denmark’s ‘no-regret’ innovation in district heating

Jacob Byskov Kristensen, energy counsellor at the Embassy of Denmark, details key characteristics of the networks providing Danish homes with clean, green heat.

14/04/2022

Analysis

Enabling innovation and growth in IoT

Phil Beecher, president and CEO of Wi-SUN Alliance, discusses findings from the group’s recent ‘Journey to IoT Maturity’ report and which drivers can help utility firms harness the potential of IoT.

12/04/2022

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