Utility Week Live 2022 returned to deliver its biggest content programme ever, with more than 2,200 people attending to watch a host of fascinating sessions and engage with innovative exhibitors.
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DevicePilot CEO, Pilgrim Beart – founder of the platform which eventually became British Gas’ Hive – outlines how he believes the UK smart energy sector can best weather a ‘perfect’ storm in H2 2022.
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Hydrogen UK CEO, Clare Jackson, reflects on the trade body’s launch, ‘Jazzy Shirt Mondays’ and the need to move away from ‘silo-ism’ to hit industry targets.
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Craig Hopkinson, sustainability manager at Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance – and Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee – talks through the role of nature-based solutions in addressing a wide range of crises.
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Amid clamour for smarter cities and a green industrial revolution, Utility Week Innovate showcases five modern utility projects ensuring the foundations of tomorrow’s smart cities can match the durability and ambition of those laid by Victorians more than a century ago.
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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.
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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.
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Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee, Stantec civil engineer Sam Mullaney, discusses his work under the Living with Water Partnership and the prospect of developing more low carbon solutions.
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A recent Utility Week webinar brought together sector leaders to explore the challenges utilities must tackle to improve diversity and inclusion.
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While the utility sector’s creative minds are pulling up trees to fuel the energy transition, decarbonise and innovate around water supply, firms’ green strategies incorporate far broader schemes than simply replanting them.
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Heat networks harnessing energy from waste are to be developed in London and Devon with the support of almost £30 million awarded through the Government’s Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP).
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Renewable energy firm Drax has applied for planning consent to more than double the electricity generating capacity at its Cruachan facility in Scotland.
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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.
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A recent Utility Week webinar brought together sector leaders to explore the challenges utilities must tackle to improve diversity and inclusion.
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EDF's head of smart customers, Rebecca Rosling, explains the value of simple communication, sourcing new ideas from different sources, and why it’s such an exciting time to be in energy.
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At a time of upheaval in the retail energy market, world-class customer service has never been so crucial – not only for customer acquisition, retention and return on investment (ROI), but for building relationships with customers at a time when trust is low.
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