Water sector centre of excellence, Spring, has launched a knowledge-sharing and project showcase platform in a bid to further facilitate collaborative innovation within the industry.
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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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Ten tech start-ups have secured more than £1 million funding to deliver solutions for the UK’s offshore wind industry.
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Martin Richardson, water framework manager at ABB, discusses harmonics, and how they can be mitigated using ultra-low harmonic variable speed drives (VSDs).
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Aerial photographs from the company building London’s super sewer, Tideway, have revealed new pockets of land to be created in the Thames as part of the subterranean project.
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Having scooped Digitalisation Project of the Year at the 2022 Water Industry Awards for its real-time bathing water monitoring with UnifAI Technology, Wessex Water’s director of environmental strategy, Ruth Barden, sheds light on ongoing innovation at Warleigh Weir.
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Lynne McDonald, DSO readiness programme manager and local area energy planning manager at UK Power Networks (UKPN), reflects on more than a decade in the utilities sector and outlines her anticipation of greener lifestyles options to surprise and delight customers during the net zero transition.
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Yorkshire Water is spending big to hit ambitious targets across areas such as customer service, leakage, pollution and flooding. Here, enterprise data architect Gary Ashby unpacks the building blocks beneath wholesale business transformation.
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Awarded more than £700,000 from the Water Breakthrough Challenge Catalyst Stream, Treatment-to-Tap seeks an industry watershed by supplementing a tech rollout with collaborative data analysis and behavioural science to build trust in tap water.
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Fresh from Everflow being named Retailer of the Year at the Water Industry Awards 2022, its environmental and regulatory affairs manager Clare Galland reflects on language lessons at a French nuclear plant, overcoming social anxiety, and the importance of in-person working.
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Kostas Karachalios, CEO of Perceptual Robotics – a firm which combines artificial intelligence and drone technology to maintain wind turbines – discusses the role of robotics in the proliferation of renewable energy and the importance of data sharing in reaching net zero.
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A recent analysis of 2021 demand patterns by energy solutions firm Balance Power concluded that greater focus on addressing demand and generation misalignment is needed to hit net zero targets. CEO Phil Thompson shares his thoughts on next steps.
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Carl Ennis, CEO of Siemens GB&I and chair of Net Zero North West, explores how investing in net zero innovation could be the key to successfully spreading opportunity more equally across the UK.
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A recent analysis of 2021 demand patterns by energy solutions firm Balance Power concluded that greater focus on addressing demand and generation misalignment is needed to hit net zero targets. CEO Phil Thompson shares his thoughts on next steps.
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Rapid electric vehicle plug-in point network, Osprey, has become the first subscriber to ChargeSafe – a public endorsement body that inspects and rates charging locations – in a bid to assess areas for improvement and innovation towards greater electric vehicle (EV) inclusivity.
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A Leicester-based community energy group has joined forces with the Energy Systems Catapult, Loughborough University and Leicester City Council to help schools across the region slash energy bills and carbon emissions.
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