Generation

Flex 4: It’s all about the data

Securing the Brave New World: can utilities trust their consumers’ data to AI?

Waste heat from water treatment to warm low-carbon greenhouses in East Anglia

Construction is about to begin on two pioneering low-carbon greenhouses in Norfolk and Suffolk that will be kept warm with waste heat recovered from nearby water treatment facilities operated by Anglian Water using the biggest heat pumps ever deployed in the UK.

Utility providers remain invisible to most customers

The New Deal for Utilities Debate brought into focus a fundamental need: for both parties involved in striking the deal – companies and their customers – to benefit from it.

Who is Jonathan Brearley? Looking at the career of the new Ofgem CEO

The announcement of a new chief executive at Ofgem is a hugely significant move for the entire sector. Utility Week looks at Jonathan Brearley's background and the market changes he has already been instrumental in.

Final turbine installed at Hornsea One offshore windfarm

A debate for our time

While a reconvened Westminster traded insults last week, a more constructive exchange was under way just across Parliament Square.

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund announces £58m share offer

NIC’s nuclear advice ‘outdated’ in net-zero era

Brexit ‘could prompt reversal of solar panel VAT hike’

Utility bosses bemoan lack of transparency around Apprenticeship Levy

A snap poll among nearly 200 delegates at the National Skills Academy for Power annual conference found that more than half were unaware of how much of the Apprenticeship Levy had been returned to the Treasury.

World’s largest offshore windfarm to use world’s most powerful turbine

New pension fund rules ‘show capitalism is best method to deliver net-zero’

The pensions minister has pointed to new rules forcing pension funds to take account of climate change in investment decisions as an example of capitalism driving forward green solutions. Labour’s plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2030, meanwhile, have been branded ‘”total tosh” by Andrea Leadsom.

Western Power Distribution – Case study

Transmission cables perform the essential function of carrying power between buildings. As these cable products

Renewables investors ‘allowed to speculate at expense of the public’

“You barely have an energy market in this country at all, such is the level of intervention,” a libertarian thinktank has claimed.