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Uniting water’s voices ahead of COP26

What exactly is the circular economy?

Smart meter rollout is reaching ‘critical mass’

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Ofgem investigates ‘unacceptable’ Symbio Energy

In customer journeys why a voice to talk to is more essential than ever

The financial impact of the pandemic poses difficult questions and challenges to utility providers when

WHD and social tariffs ‘could be used as vulnerability flags’

Schemes such as the warm home discount in energy or social tariffs in water could be used to flag potentially vulnerable customers to different sectors, a new report has recommended. National Energy Action’s ‘Surviving the wilderness’ report focuses on three sectors – energy, water and council tax. It concludes that common approaches to debt management can help customers to know what to expect at all stages of the process, and how to navigate the support options which may be available to them.

Ofgem issues final orders over unpaid RO and FIT bills of £15m

Do we need EMR 2.0 to replicate success of offshore wind?

Build Back Better: Making small modular reactors stack up

Government could be set to invest more in small modular reactors as part of the green recovery plan. They could provide the natural successors to large nuclear reactors, supplying baseload in a future where intermittent energy will play an increasing part. But only if there is commitment to the necessary volume to deliver progressive cost reduction, say Julianne Antrobus and Robbie Lyons

Marking a year of huge progress for offshore wind

Twelve months on from the signing of the landmark Offshore Wind Sector Deal, Orsted's UK Country Manager for offshore wind business, Benj Sykes, looks back at just how far the industry has now come

Business resilience versus the coronavirus

Within just a month coronavirus has soared to the top of the world’s lexicon, but for lifeline businesses like utilities ‘resilience’ is now running a close second, writes Suzanne Heneghan

Is Yorkshire Water’s PR19 challenge a bid to draw a line in the sand?

The wait is over: it’s pistols at dawn. Before this week, there had been growing tension and speculation in the water sector as the deadline loomed for companies to throw out their PR19 final determinations and refer their settlements to the ­Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). In the end it was Yorkshire Water that reached for the trigger.

Political Agenda: Select committees may be less potent in this Parliament

Utility Week policy correspondent, David Blackman, gives his weekly insight into what's happening in the corridors of power.