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Blackpool Council has been granted a self-supply licence for the water retail market.
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Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) has been fined a record £40,000 for polluting a river in County Londonderry with raw sewage.
After 15 months of the open water market, market participants continue to grapple with the same issues. Utility Week rounds up what has happened over the last six months.
SSE will pay £1 million to Ofgem’s consumer redress fund after the energy company sent 580,000 pre-payment customers “inaccurate and misleading” information in their annual statements between 2014/2015.
Thames Water will return a total of £120 million to customers for failing to tackle leakage.
Wales’ first minister has launched a last ditch bid to rescue plans for a pioneering wave power plant in Swansea Bay.
United Utilities is warning people not to swim in reservoirs and lakes after two men drowned, in unrelated incidents, yesterday (5 June) in reservoirs in Bolton and Gorton.
The world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage plant has been officially opened near Manchester.
"Debt recovery is repetitive and process heavy, requiring the management of a significant amount of often disparate customer information"
"It’s clear to both Ofwat and Waterwise that the level of consumption in the long-term could be much lower than it is now"
United Utilities was fined £200,000 with additional costs of £54,000 agreed at a sentencing hearing in Bolton Crown Court yesterday (5 June) for drinking water offences in 2015.
Anglian Water has taken just under three months to remove its Cayman Islands subsidiary from its financial structure.
Water companies have defended the pay of their chief executives and said they are delivering for customers, after the GMB union branded nine water CEOs “fat cats”.
The Crown Estate has received applications for an additional 3GW of generating capacity by extending existing windfarms.
This exclusive Foresight report from Utility Week leverages insights from technology experts and leaders of prominent blockchain pilot schemes to look at how blockchain might transform today’s energy system.
Greg Clark is due to make an announcement this evening on nuclear power in which he is expected to give the go ahead for plans to build a new atom plant in north Wales.
SES Water has switched to renewable electricity for all its treatment works, pumping stations and offices in a move it describes as a “major step forward” for its environmental commitments.
Sembcorp Industries has agreed to buy flexible generation company UK Power Reserve (UKPR) from the
Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) has pledged to eradicate water poverty across its supply areas by 2030.
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