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Scottish Power has announced a 5.5 per cent increase to its standard variable domestic gas and electricity prices.
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Utilita Energy has filed for a judicial review into the end date for the installation of SMETS1 meters for pay as you go (PAYG) customers.
By Prof. Dr. Frank Gielen, education director at InnoEnergy “Whether you want to call them
"AI is highly unlikely to impact the water industry in the short term"
"Fraud detection is a perpetual game of cat and mouse, with fraud occurring wherever utility providers have weaknesses in their defences"
Clive Bairsto, the former global head of resilience and crisis at National Grid has been appointed chief executive of Street Works UK.
Paul Massara, the former chief executive of Npower has been appointed CEO of British blockchain company Electron, as it looks to grow with new investment.
The government’s rejection of plans for a new open cast coal mine faces a High Court challenge amidst accusations by the project’s backers that the move will push up energy prices by increasing the UK’s reliance on risky overseas supplies of the fuel.
Suppliers will be obliged to take “all reasonable steps” to enrol SMETS1 meters with the Data Communication Company (DCC), or replace them with fully interoperable SMETS2 devices, under new government plans.
Yorkshire Water expects to receive the final regulatory clearances to remove its companies in the Cayman Islands within the next few days.
What is innovation really all about? At its core innovation is creativity that creates value,
"Building new pipes and wires may not always be the best option"
Environment secretary Michael Gove has called for the amelioration of the water sector and has offered to give Ofwat more powers to make this happen. Now Ofwat has responded with its plans for how the water sector will be reformed. Katey Pigden investigates.
"There will be multiple physical and political issues to be addressed in determining what level of integration between upstream water resources is appropriate"
Environment secretary Michael Gove has welcomed Ofwat’s proposed measures to “address concerns” about the financial practices of some water companies.
Sure enough, with a median pay gap of 16.2 per cent, the energy sector ranked
The scale of the cyber-security threat to industrial assets and infrastructure such as the power grid has been hidden from view due to unreported attacks, a leading expert has warned.
Yorkshire Water held its first solveIT hackathon event to discover “technology-led and data driven” opportunities which could help the company predict potential flooding and pollution incidents.
A total of 123,005 supply point switches took place in the first year of the non-domestic water market out of an estimated 2.7 million supply points.
Severn Trent has become the first water company to sign up to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Dying to Work charter, which aims to protect employees with a terminal illness.