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A year in the life of DSOs | Visibility and open data

To get the most value from their assets, both electricity distribution networks and their customers need to know how they are being utilised and where spare capacity is available. Tom Grimwood looks at how distribution system operators (DSO) have been working to improve visibility over their networks and make this information accessible to others.

1 year ago

Who will Ofgem choose as market facilitator?

1 year ago

Smart meter installations fall to lowest level in years

1 year ago

Utility Week Intelligence Introduces FYLD

1 year ago

Five things you need to know about water smart metering programmes

1 year ago

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Greater understanding of CSOs needed

5 years ago

Back Office is The New Front Office For Utilities

Download this new report into digitally transforming the traditional back office, including perspectives from utilities leaders from EXL and British Gas, along with case studies on transformation, customer experience, automation and innovation.

5 years ago

Customers move to self-serve in lockdown

5 years ago

DCC says it’s ‘full steam ahead’ for smart meter rollout despite lockdown

5 years ago

Build Back Better: Plan for Utopia not 1984

5 years ago

British Gas places UK’s largest commercial EV order to date

5 years ago

DNOs required to compile standardised asset registers

5 years ago

Covid-19 propels utilities towards a digital future

5 years ago

Networks plot course to smart local power grids

5 years ago

Making the most of technology to improve customer communications in the new normal

The need for agility to respond to customers in timely and personalised ways has never

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Half of large suppliers failed to meet annual smart meter milestones

5 years ago

MOSL plots course for transition out of lockdown

The market operator for the non-domestic water retail sector (MOSL) is to set out how suppliers should gradually remove the protections for businesses impacted by coronavirus. Its Market Performance Operating Plan also aims to tackle legacy issues around the capture and use of data.

5 years ago

Zero Carbon Commission calls for cross-sector carbon tax

5 years ago

Yorkshire tenders to switch to solar power

5 years ago

Government invests £24m in green home innovation projects

5 years ago

Build Back Better quick wins: ECIU’s Jonathan Marshall on regional boosts

Jonathan Marshall, head of analysis at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit on investing in green technologies could help different regions

5 years ago

CCC hits back at claims of soft proposals

Committee on Climate Change (CCC) chair Lord Deben has branded as “unacceptable” comments that the body is focussed on politically palatable solutions. Meanwhile, Centrica tells Utility Week that the government should set a more ambitious target for banning the sale of internal combustion engine cars and vans than that recommended by the CCC.

5 years ago

Good Energy increases stake in Zap Map to 50%

Challenger brand Good Energy has increased its stake in in electric vehicle (EV) charge point platform Zap-Map to 50 per cent. The transaction is being funded by the exercise of a convertible loan, which increases its share in Zap Map’s parent company Next Green Car (NGC) from 13 per cent which it acquired earlier this year.

5 years ago

Build Back Better: Rundown regions have most to gain

5 years ago

Build Back Better quick wins: Prospect’s Sue Fern on EVs and new nuclear

We continue our series leading up to an expected emergency budget by asking Sue Ferns senior deputy general secretary at the union Prospect, her views on where pace could be picked up to accelerate a green recovery.

5 years ago