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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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Centrica invests in two smart home services start-ups

7 years ago

Heating services firm ‘Energy Watchdog’ misleads public

Energy Watchdog Ltd, a Merseyside-based heating systems business, has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) not to refer to itself as an industry ‘watchdog’.

7 years ago

Severn Trent turns on £60m pumping station

Severn Trent has announced a major milestone today (19 February) after switching on its new Terminal Pumping Station at Crankley Point in Newark.

7 years ago

DCC says 400,000 SMETS2 devices are operational

7 years ago

Smart meter 2020 deadline is ‘impossible to meet’

7 years ago

NIC seeks views on how to improve utility regulation

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is seeking views on how the current utilities regulation system is working and whether it has “systematically failed or succeeded” in several key areas.

7 years ago

Energy firms get ‘no clarity’ on preparing for no deal Brexit

Tanisha Beebee, senior policy adviser on energy and climate change at the CBI, said the notices being provided by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) about the UK withdrawing from the EU without a deal on 29 March are "very, very basic".

7 years ago

The smart world is built on grid modernisation

The electricity grid is one of the largest, most complex machines ever built, and the

7 years ago

Personal data fluidity

7 years ago

An energy system fit for purpose

Until recently the UK government’s future energy plans relied heavily on expensive new nuclear power

7 years ago

Why the customer is king for Centrica’s Claire Miles

7 years ago

Yorkshire Water starts analytics trial to help battle leakage

Yorkshire Water has started trialling smart analytics to find and fix leaks in its network with the aim of avoiding interruptions to services for customers.

7 years ago

Download the Flex brochure

Utility Week Flex, launched in October 2018, celebrates and explore all that cutting-edge technology has

7 years ago

Mitsubishi buys 20 per cent stake in Ovo Energy

Ovo Energy, the UK’s seventh largest energy provider, plans to expand internationally with a £200 million cash injection from Mitsubishi Corporation.

7 years ago

UK’s ‘first fully open’ charge network opens in Suffolk

An electric vehicle (EV) charging manufacturer has announced it has partnered with London-based renewable energy supplier Bulb to launch the "first" fully open public charging network.

7 years ago