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Sector ‘needs more clarity on key worker status’

The government has not been specific enough about who counts as a key worker in utilities, according to the Prospect union. The group has called for specific guidance amid fears utility companies are interpreting the rules too broadly.

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Utility Week Investor Summit: Money well spent?

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Utility Week #AskUsAnything webinar: How will coronavirus change utilities?

Date: 27/03/2020 11:45 am

Squeeze on returns will leave networks ‘hunkering down’

In the first part of our interview with Cadent chief executive Steve Fraser, we discussed the company’s past performance issues and his efforts to resolve them. In the second, we move onto hydrogen conversion, the gas mains replacement programme and returns for investors.

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Will Covid-19 make utilities press reset for good?

The nation has been forced to learn to work remotely. And those parts of the workforce that can’t – including key workers in utilities – are fast adapting.

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Less than half of energy workers confident about resilience plans

Energy workers have a widespread lack of faith in their employer's workforce resilience plans, according to a survey carried out by the union Prospect of its members in the sector. The poll raises concerns about social distancing and whether companies are moving quick enough to halt non-essential work.

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Network bottlenecks will drive ‘large rise’ in constraint costs

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Distributed ReStart project: live trials

In a pre-corona world, Network spoke to Peter Chandler, project lead for the ground-breaking Distributed ReStart project about the challenges it will face as it embarks on live trials this summer

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Preparing for tomorrow’s challenges

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Coping with coronavirus: How networks are reacting

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Weekend press round-up: How Europe is reacting to keep lights on and taps running

This week's roundup of the national papers shows how European utilities have responded to the coronavirus outbreak and how front-line services have kept running in the UK and across the continent as the effects of the crisis show.

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#AskUsAnything: How will coronavirus change the utilities sector?

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50 days with coronavirus: the story so far for UK utilities

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Coronavirus: Regulator ‘like band playing on deck of Titanic’

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Prosperity should be for everyone

As part of our Regional Growth and Utilities series, Kerry Scott looks at the responsibilities and opportunities created by the UK’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda.

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Government agrees emergency measures with energy retailers

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Cadent ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ at performance problems

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Hold the applause

The Budget poured billions into the economy but showed much less appetite for green measures. With all attention now on fighting coronavirus, climate action is on hold, as David Blackman reports.

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Coping with coronavirus: How companies are reacting

As the utilities sector braces for a period of uncertainty, companies are keen to reassure customers that services will remain intact. Centrica, Eon, Npower, Octopus, Bristol, Portsmouth, Southern and Thames Water have told Utility Week how they are responding.

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Business resilience versus the coronavirus

Within just a month coronavirus has soared to the top of the world’s lexicon, but for lifeline businesses like utilities ‘resilience’ is now running a close second, writes Suzanne Heneghan

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