Water

Innovation in the Pipeline

Leak detection technology heading in a new and exciting direction

On the Move: Heat Trust appoints new MD

In Utility Week’s latest round-up of people moves across the sector, the Heat Trust gets a new managing director; a former Centrica director is to head up Energy UK’s Vulnerability Commitment and the first chair of the UK Infrastructure Bank is unveiled.

Northumbrian’s Innovation Festival set to return in hybrid form

Ofwat’s £40m Breakthrough Challenge kicks off

SVT to trial incentives for non-household water efficiency

IWC: Smarter Tanks to improve resilience

One of Affinity Water's two winning bids in the Innovation in Water Challenge is to apply smart network techniques to assets such as storage water tanks to boost network capacity when demand is high. Project lead Mumin Islam talked to Utility Week about the project.

Ofwat sets out bad debt recovery for non-household market

To protect the non-household water sector from systemic retailer failure Ofwat has said changes will be made to the price cap from April 2022 if the level of customer bad debt exceeds two per cent

The role of data sharing in water transformation

Request to Pay – shaking up billing operations

Weekend press round-up: Goldman Sachs to plough £250m into Ovo

In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, Goldman Sachs is said to be in advanced negotiations to inject capital into Ovo Energy. Meanwhile, BP is considering bidding in the Scotwind auction as it ramps up its green ambitions. Lobbying efforts to promote investment in hydrogen and the future of desalination for drinking water are also analysed.

Water2business tops MOSL’s retailer chart

IWC: ‘Game-changing’ tool to measure whole life carbon

Leak repair tool wins Future Water innovation award

Yorkshire deploys quick response valves

Bristol proposes shift to ‘ethical’ regulatory framework

Bristol Water has questioned what economic regulation needs to look like for the future and how to better include stakeholders in price reviews to build customer trust in the process