Metering

Smart water meter innovation key to taking control of consumption

Tapping into the potential of smart water meters and delivering a smarter future for the UK’s water supply network will require a collaborative, ‘all-hands-on-deck’, approach according to Everflow founder and CEO Josh Gill.

16/08/2022

Comment

Energy price rise yields ‘best-ever opportunity’ to innovate for customer efficiency

The unprecedented rise in energy prices has, according to Utilita founder and CEO Bill Bullen, created a ‘best-ever opportunity’ for the Government and energy suppliers alike to encourage energy efficient customer behaviour.

15/06/2022

Opinion

Five things you need to know about the Internet of Things

The fourth industrial revolution, with widespread rollout of the so-called Internet of Things, has been well publicised and long anticipated. There can be little doubt that, with UK utilities and their supply chain partners under increasing pressure to deliver more for less, smart devices that generate actionable insight are a must-have.

13/06/2022

News

Meet the Innovators: Aaron Berndt, Google

The head of energy industry partnerships for Google’s Nest thermostat business, Aaron Berndt, discusses the tech giant’s pandemic ‘helpfulness campaigns’, efforts to streamline smart thermostat adoption and the impending challenge of scaling distributed energy resources.

24/05/2022

Interviews

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

Utility Week Innovate explores some of the digital projects helping utility firms respond to the ‘dynamic’ nature of customer vulnerability.

06/05/2022

Analysis

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

Meet the Innovators: George Walters, Utilita

Utilita’s director of new products, George Walters, discusses the importance of consumer-facing innovation and why he believes suppliers who aren’t creating technology that enable customers to understand and tweak their energy usage will lose out.

08/02/2022

Interviews

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

MOSL calls for non-household specific ODIs at PR24

Non-household water market operator MOSL has set out suggestions for how to include concerns of the business sector in PR24 plans including setting ODIs to allow wholesalers to invest in metering and data.

10/08/2021

News

Sustainability in a global pandemic: What role must water companies play?

Arthur Mitchell, engagement manager at PwC's Strategy& division, considers how water companies can support customers through this difficult time while balancing the sustainability impacts of increased consumption during lockdown.

12/10/2020

Comment

Build Back Better quick wins: Audrey Gallacher on creating 42,000 jobs

The interim CEO of Energy UK also calls for an nationwide roll out of energy efficiency measures in the second in our series looking at where the impact of green investment could be felt speedily.

22/06/2020

Opinion

Solarplicity denies SoLR rumours as it lets 27 meter installers go

Challenger supplier Solarplicity has denied rumours it is about to enter the Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) process but has confirmed it has let 27 of its meter installers go.

20/03/2019

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