Smart utilities

Revolutionising streetworks with robotics and AI

Electricity networks embrace new heat pumps target

Field forces get digital

How AI is changing finance and operations in the utilities sector

Smart meters could help identify health issues among vulnerable

Accelerated transformation in field operations

Plans for a green industrial revolution must be backed up by substance and investment

PM’s vision puts ED2 in the spotlight

Former Ofgem chief executive Dermot Nolan has told Utility Week that Boris Johnson’s green plan has “shone the spotlight even more brightly on RIIO-ED2”. He pointed to the move to bring forward the ban on petrol and diesel car sales to 2030 as having major ramifications for DNO’s business plans for the next price control and said there will “inevitably be tensions” around the levels of investment required.

UU creates UK’s first ‘smart water town’

United Utilities has created a town-wide smart water network in Macclesfield that incorporates AI to learn from patterns in the network data to detect leaks before they spring

Net zero requires £400bn spend this decade

Green infrastructure investment must double from current levels, to £40 billion per annum over the next decade, to reach the UK’s decarbonisation target. This is the conclusion of research by PwC, which has also warned that half of the investment opportunities identified would currently be unable to access low-cost capital because they would be considered too high risk. It has called for government to urgently identify mechanisms to ensure this funding is forthcoming.

NI Water embarks on hydrogen production project

NI Water is to become the first in the UK to produce hydrogen through electrolysis at a wastewater treatment site.  

Avoiding fault level risks: a pressing challenge for power distribution networks

UKPN seeks 250MW of flexibility in £50m tender

Centrica completes local energy market trial in Cornwall

Calisen to acquire 1.3m smart meters

Smart metering company Calisen been awarded preferred bidder status on a portfolio of 1.3 million units. This takes its total pipeline for 2025 to 13.2 million smart meters.

A series of unfortunate events

Harnessing digital power to deliver on net-zero carbon commitments

Short interruptions: a network performance opportunity gap

A new report to explain how a focus on short interruptions can help power network operators get ahead increasing regulatory pressure for improvements in customer experience and resilience despite mounting grid constraints.

Playing the long game on network reliability: partial discharge monitoring

Western Power Distribution begins domestic flexibility pilot