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Royal de-commission: Reconfiguring London’s water during a £25m reservoir upgrade

Storing around 10% of the capital’s water, the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Reservoir being under maintenance for the best part of 2021 necessitated an urgent shake-up of London’s water. Here, project leaders from Thames Water discuss the process of taking the reservoir out of action and £25 million worth of upgrades.

By Stuart Stone

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Green gas: Re-wilding Cadent sites

10/01/2022

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Water Excellence

Innovation trends for 2022: From ‘all grown-up’ AI to hyper-automation

11/01/2022

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06/01/2022

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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

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5G ‘smart’ substation rollout creating extra room for renewables

Peter Papasotiriou, innovation programme manager at UK Power Networks (UKPN), discusses the firm’s creation of ‘smart’ substations in tandem with Vodafone and their potential impact on the drive towards net zero.

12/01/2022

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Meet the Innovators: Josh Gill, Everflow Water

Everflow CEO Josh Gill discusses the need for the water industry to focus on advances in machine learning, open data and AI as well as what the sector can learn from innovation in finance.

07/01/2022

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Is water ‘well ahead’ of COP?

Experts from the water sector share their thoughts on how and where innovation can boost post-COP progress and discuss whether or not the industry is already ahead of the conference’s collaborative curve.

18/11/2021

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Navigating National Grid’s Virtual Energy System

National Grid’s head of digital transformation and innovation strategy, Carolina Tortora, deconstructs the ESO’s new energy system replica and explores how digital twin technology has helped drive both the Covid vaccine rollout and Mercedes’ recent success in Formula One.

02/12/2021

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How Octopus Energy is preparing to shake up the heat pump market

Utility Week’s Lucinda Dann visited the UK’s first R&D centre for heat pumps to find out how and why Octopus Energy is preparing to install them on a mass scale from April 2022.

21/12/2021

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Covid in wastewater early warning system upgraded to detect Omicron variant

Philippe Sébérac, director of technological and scientific expertise at Veolia, explains how the firm and its project partners have updated their early warning system for identifying and quantifying Covid-19 in wastewater to cope with new variants, and discusses a broader rollout.

07/01/2022

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Innovation round-up: Customer experience digital twin, Humber ‘hydrogen town’, ‘super sewer’ makes Blackfriars connection

The latest round-up of utility industry innovation includes a customer experience digital twin from Northumbrian Water, plans for a ‘hydrogen town’ in the Humber region and an update on London’s ‘super sewer’.

17/12/2021

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Meet the Innovators: Shaunna Berendsen, Spring

To mark the launch of the water sector’s innovation centre of excellence, Spring, on 20 December, client programme director Shaunna Berendsen discusses the importance of customer buy-in to innovation and the need to make utilities ‘cool’.

14/12/2021

Interviews

Focus on data and digitalisation spearheading WPD drive towards net zero

Western Power Distribution’s Jon Berry tells Utility Week Innovate how digitalisation and an open, ‘data first’, mindset can play crucial roles in fostering low carbon innovation across the energy sector.

05/01/2022

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Icebreaker One: baseline data plumbing for an open energy sector

Icebreaker One CEO Gavin Starks explains how lessons in standardisation and data sharing from open banking can drive the energy sector towards net zero – and empower it to harness an explosion of green innovation.

20/12/2021

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Innovation round-up: Customer experience digital twin, Humber ‘hydrogen town’, ‘super sewer’ makes Blackfriars connection

17/12/2021

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