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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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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Vattenfall has agreed a contract for Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions to deliver grid connection infrastructure for the 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm, 47 kilometres off the Norfolk coast.
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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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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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The utility responsible for delivering electricity to eight million homes and businesses across the Midlands, south west, and south Wales, launched a smart meter data scheme it hopes can facilitate the mass adoption of EV chargers, heat pumps and solar panels by its consumers.
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The World Energy Council’s August World Energy Pulse has outlined the priorities and concerns of the global energy community as well as areas of untapped potential for innovation.
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Slated as the first large-scale pumped hydro storage scheme to be built in the UK for more than 30 years, Utility Week Innovate digs into plans to deliver up to 1.5GW and 30GWh of storage by 2030 at Coire Glas.
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Community Energy England has joined forces with BEIS Net Zero Hubs and Community Energy Scotland to compile a nationwide map of community energy groups, projects, and their locations to boost grassroots collaborative innovation.
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