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Cadent has announced the four winners of contracts to deliver a ten-year gas mains replacement programme.
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Pennon, the parent group of South West and Bournemouth Water, has announced a major restructure following the sale of Viridor. Susan Davy has been named chief executive and Chris Loughlin will leave the business.
Energy UK’s new chief executive Emma Pinchbeck has begun her tenure at the trade body. She will begin her role on a part-time basis before moving to full time later in the year.
The public perception of utilities workers during lockdown has shifted from an early suspicion as to why projects in public areas needed to continue to a renewed respect for the critical role the industry performs. Dan Rhodes, of Morrison Utility Services, says the sector can build on this by ensuring by ensuring communications with customers are clear and compassionate.
Portsmouth adds a former MP to its board to bring extra environmental and water policy expertise as it embarks on the first reservoir project in the south east for 50 years
The market operator for the non-domestic water retail sector (MOSL) is to set out how suppliers should gradually remove the protections for businesses impacted by coronavirus. Its Market Performance Operating Plan also aims to tackle legacy issues around the capture and use of data.
The government has announced a fresh delay to the publication of the National Infrastructure Strategy as Boris Johnson’s blueprint for a post-lockdown infrastructure investment spree was criticised by green campaigners. There was disappointment in particular at the lack of focus on energy efficiency projects. See full reaction from across the industry.
The Energy & Utility Skills group has appointed Phil Beach, currently of exams regulator Ofqual, as its new chief executive, Utility Week has learnt.
Men and women across UK utilities have been working flat out and with great selflessness to provide access to essential utility services during this difficult time. As tentative steps are made to ease the UK lockdown, we have an important opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learnt about the people and teams that drive the industry, says Clancy Group CEO Matt Cannon.
A leading energy union has appealed to Ofgem to reopen its current price control review because the trajectory of demand is “not yet clear” as the UK emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. Prospect has suggested the regulator could allow network companies financial leeway to make advanced payments to contractors in order to maintain staffing levels above those required for temporarily suppressed workflows.
CCW, the consumer watchdog for the water sector, has appointed Emma Clancy to replace Tony Smith as its chief executive from next month.
South West Water has seen its leakage repair productivity rates soar in recent months compared to historic averages. Utility Week talks to the teams involved about the challenges AMP7 presents and how the company will tackle them.
Utility Week speaks to Energy & Utilities Skills partnership chair Michael Lewis about the group’s updated strategy to fill the 277,000 vacancies expected over the next decade. The Eon chief executive believes the increased visibility of the sector during lockdown combined with a zeal for playing a part in tackling climate change create a “once in a generation opportunity" for the sector.
Energy & Utility Skills has called for a joined-up skills strategy across the whole of the UK to help people who have lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus lockdown get back into work. The organisation was responding to a pledge by Boris Johnson to take an “activist and interventionist” approach to dealing with the fallout of the pandemic, guaranteeing apprenticeships all young people.
