Smart utilities

IWC: ‘Game-changing’ tool to measure whole life carbon

Tech Talk: Taming faults to support the transition to net zero

Leak repair tool wins Future Water innovation award

Yorkshire deploys quick response valves

Optimising address data to drive efficiency

WPD spearheads combined approach to local energy planning

A consortium led by Western Power Distribution (WPD) is working to create a combined approach to local energy planning to help local authorities and network companies achieve net zero. The Energy Planning Integrated with Councils (EPIC) project is being trialled in three areas in South West England and will seek to develop an agreed process for identifying and analysing energy plans in relation to the increased uptake of low carbon technologies.

Digital substations are a catalyst to achieving net zero

MHHS should not place limits on elective arrangements

Heat pumps ‘not suitable’ for half of UK homes

Vaccination success sees smart meter rebound

DCC network is ‘credible option’ for enabling smart EV charging

Britain’s smart meter network is a "credible option" for enabling smart electric vehicle (EV) charging, despite a report warning against its mandatory use, the chief executive of the Data Communications Company (DCC) has argued. Angus Flett was speaking in response to a report produced on behalf of trade body Energy UK, which raised a number of concerns, including that the DCC network is specific to Great Britain, whilst the market for EVs is global.

Concerns raised over mandating DCC network for smart EV charging

EV drivers unhappy with public charging infrastructure

Accelerating towards investment planning excellence – Affinity Water’s story

Good Energy offers free EV charging with ToU tariff

Catch 2050: investing for net zero

The local push to build smart communities

Current system ‘doesn’t value storage and flexibility’

Industry calls for VAT on green products to be axed

Bulb chief executive Hayden Wood and REA boss Nina Skorupska are among 32 industry figures who have written to Boris Johnson urging him to scrap VAT on green products. While the letter states the sector was “encouraged” with the chancellor pledging investment in green infrastructure projects in the recent budget, it said there was disappointment at the “lack of policies to help people play a part in reaching net zero”.

SP Energy Networks deploys inspection drones

SP Energy Networks (SPEN) has begun using drones to inspect its network assets as part of the company’s bid to reduce emissions. In the past the company has relied solely on helicopters to visually assess more than 2,000 towers and electricity transmission structures across its transmission network covering central and southern Scotland.