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To address skills shortages in the utility sector, United Utilities is welcoming 48 new starters to its apprenticeship and graduate schemes. The company has won industry awards for its three- to four-year programmes that accelerate staff through company training schemes.
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Water minister Therese Coffey has been promoted to replace Amber Rudd as secretary of state for work and pensions.
If a week is a long time in politics, six years is positively a lifetime. That surely must be what Ofgem chief Dermot Nolan is feeling as he prepares to step down in February. The interviews for his replacement are due to start today.
Northern Powergrid has appointed the chair of its independent customer engagement group. The incoming chair has years of experience working on boards in a variety of sectors.
John Howard previously served as a non-executive director at Ofgem where he was a member of the energy regulator’s RIIO1 price control committee. Howard also helped formulate the regulator’s definition of consumer vulnerability.
Sir Ed Davey has returned to the energy beat as part of recently elected Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson’s first shadow cabinet reshuffle.
Steps are already being taken to make the utilities sector more diverse and reflective of the wider society, a senior figure has claimed.
Over the past week, the industry has seen several companies, including big six energy provider Scottish Power, announce new appointments.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has confirmed its ministerial team has been fully appointed following the cabinet reshuffle.
Energy UK's chief executive Lawrence Slade has announced he is stepping down from the role at the end of the year.
Utility Week takes a look at some of the appointments which have been confirmed across the sector this week.
Utility Week takes a look at some of the sector's high-profile appointments.
Claire Miles, the managing director of Centrica's Connected Home business, has announced she is to leave the company to become the chief executive of Yell.
Do Boris Johnson’s wholesale cabinet changes signal an end to the policy logjam? David Blackman reports.
Michael Roberts is to leave his role as chief executive of trade body Water UK after four years in the role.
The Energy Ombudsman has announced a revamp of its senior leadership team and has appointed its first-ever managing director.
Steve Fraser, the chief operating officer for United Utilities, will take up his new role as the chief executive of Cadent on 2 September.
Boris Johnson's cabinet culling has put even Harold MacMillan’s Night of the Long Knives’ in the shade. However, speculation around a potential break-up of the department for business, energy & industrial strategy (BEIS) proved to be unfounded. In Andrea Leadsom, the energy sector will also be dealing with a known quantity. But what does the new secretary of state's record look like?
