Sustainable infrastructure

A window to innovation

Last month Anglian expanded its Shop Window project, which aims to use the town of Newmarket as a live testbed for innovative solutions to the problems the water sector is facing now, and for the future. Utility Week chats to the driving forces behind the project.

Integrated North Sea power grid could save up to £70bn

Innovate East returns to address decarbonisation

To address some of the problematic elements of decarbonisation in the water sector, this virtual innovation festival jointly hosted by Anglian, Yorkshire and Essex & Suffolk will look towards COP26

Thames embarks on home heating sewage scheme

Using innovation and strategy to increase drone inspection efficiency

Anglian grows Shop Window project

Anglian Water has set out plans to expand its Shop Window, the company's Newmarket test bed for innovation, to trial its projects with one million customers before company-wide adoption.

Ofwat names innovation judging panel

The judging panel for Ofwat's much anticipated Innovation in Water Challenge has been named. The eight experts from the water sector and related industries will judge a Dragons' Den style pitching competition

Calls for rapid return to implicit trading for interconnectors

Hendry criticises slow pace of UK grid upgrade

National Grid opens second electricity interconnector to France

EA warns funding cuts are harming the environment

The chief executive of the Environment Agency has warned that declining funding is limiting the work the body can carry out to monitor and improve the environment.

National Grid updates on TERRE implementation

Water innovation competition kicks off

The first round of Ofwat's innovation competition kicks off today with the Innovation in Water Challenge, inviting ideas and pitches from within and outside the water sector with a chance to win up £250,000 of development funds.

‘Brexit got done but Europe hasn’t disappeared’

Agreement may have been reached between the UK and EU on a Brexit trade deal but the talking continues over how energy will be traded between the two sides and how they will work together to overcome common challenges developing renewable energy in the North Sea. David Blackman looks at the key issues to be resolved.

Bristol Water adds e-learning portal for home schooling

Bristol Water has created an online library of resources for students learning at home during lockdown. Worksheets, videos and experiments all related to water are available for KS2 and above learners.

Scottish Water’s efficiency challenge ‘greater than PR19’

Water UK calls for greater ambition in Environment Bill

Ofgem and BEIS reveal next steps in offshore transmission review

Ofwat consults on the water sector of the future to inform PR24

With the water sector less than a year into enacting PR19 business plans, Ofwat has reached out to stakeholders for input on the framework for the next price review. It asks what the sector should look like by 2040 and how to get there considering climate change, investment, affordability and resilience.

Tideway completes 80% of tunnelling