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First demand turn-up flexibility contracts awarded by UKPN

Drones to take water quality readings in world first trial

Weekend press round-up: Energy bills will fall in six weeks, Shapps predicts

ECO review launched after warning of ‘unrealistic’ costs

SSE to convert former coal plant into 150MW battery

Ofgem issues warning over fixed energy tariffs

Thames shareholders cough up £400m for pipe upgrades

Pressure on all water bosses to forgo their bonuses

Homeowners should be forced to upgrade properties before selling

UK’s first geothermal heat network wins funding

A scheme to warm thousands of Cornish homes with heat extracted from rocks more than 5 kilometres below the earth’s surface has been awarded £22 million of government funding. The Langarth deep geothermal heat network – the first of its kind in the UK - is one of seven projects to receive a share of £91 million handed out from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund.

French nuclear woes to keep power prices high beyond 2030

Breaking down the water sector’s postcode lottery

The current disjointed approach to social tariffs in the water sector leaves consumers at the mercy of a postcode lottery.  With each water company setting its own support mechanisms, calls for a single social tariff have increased during the cost-of-living crisis. While water companies do all offer financial help to billpayers, the generosity of support available varies from company to company. As part of our Action on Bills campaign, Utility Week has broken down the support currently offered by the country’s water companies.

Move to formalise cut price wind farm tariffs

Welsh site moves step closer to homing UK’s first SMRs

Ofwat to ‘take action’ against companies failing customers