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Weekend press: Shapps to slash energy bill support

Don’t kick the can down the road on smart water metering

Smart meter network gets 4G upgrade

Opportunity to use smart meter data for ‘far greater good’

Customer debt levels ‘worse in Covid’

ULEZ if you want to: How far will Tories turn on net zero?

Ofwat sets out efficiency fund expectations

Adding a human touch to artificial intelligence

Affinity surpasses leakage target

Affinity Water has said it is confident of meeting its leakage commitment for the current asset management period to 2025 after surpassing its leakage target for the past year. It reduced water lost by 15.8% against a target of 14%. This was against a backdrop of challenging weather worsening the conditions that cause pipes to crack and burst.

How weather data helps utilties mitigate the impact of climate change

UU launches trial to turn sewage into hydrogen and graphene

Reforms for Ofgem and Ofwat laid out

Can the sector innovate through troubled waters?

Amid turbulent times for the water sector, the seventh Northumbrian Innovation Festival welcomed thousands of guests seeking the answers to the sector's most pressing problems. Utility Week caught up with the firm's chief executive Heidi Mottram and chief information officer Nigel Watson, as well as witnessing some of the many innovations on display.

‘Significant issues’ with government’s major energy schemes

How innovation can make water sexy

Strategic Innovation Fund projects awarded £95.3m

Ofgem has awarded £95.3 million to 10 projects for the final phase of the inaugural round of its Strategic Innovation Fund. More than a third of the money – £33.3 million – will go towards a project led by National Gas Transmission to establish whether existing gas compression units on the transmission network can be adapted to work with 100% hydrogen.

Agile Working – new thinking for large asset intensive industries

ENW seeks flexible services platform provider

Electricity North West (ENW) is seeking a technology provider to develop a flexible services platform. The platform will support the flexible service process while helping to manage demand and reduce costs for customers.

Kraken licensed to first-ever broadband provider

Water Industry Awards 2023 Winners’ Review