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Build Back Better: SES on ‘Save Water Save Money’

Water companies are upping their game in bid to get their customers to save water after seeing a surge in use during lockdown. Alison Murphy, water strategy manager for SES Water, talks about the company’s new campaign

4 years ago

It’s all downside and very little upside – Nicola Shaw blasts Ofgem’s sums

The brooding row between Ofgem and networks over the draft price determinations would appear to strike at the very heart of energy companies’ ambitions to Build Back Better – no more so than at National Grid as executive director Nicola Shaw tells Denise Chevin

4 years ago

SSE: Net zero delay is not zero cost

4 years ago

ED2: How local, how flexible, how fast?

Northern Powergrid has launched the first stage in compiling its business plan for the RIIO ED2 price control. Utility Week speaks to the company’s policy and markets director, Patrick Erwin, about a tiered approach to engaging consumers, learnings from the gas and transmission networks and acting as a “force for good”.

4 years ago

Optimising flexibility and productivity – the challenge for operations leaders post-Covid

A webinar to explore the challenges for utilities operations leaders in supporting increased levels of flexible working while also maximising productivity in the post-Covid environment. The event will feature lessons from the insurance sector as well as insights from utilities experts.

Date: 11/09/2020 12:30 pm

Why back office automation is key to helping the vulnerable

Parseq's managing director Craig Naylor-Smith believes rethinking how payments are allocated can help utilities improve their customer experience and avoid reputational damage when supporting vulnerable consumers in the wake of Covid-19. He argues that while the channels customers use to interact with their suppliers have become more digital, the back office has fallen behind.

4 years ago

Build Back Better: Can lessons from the past influence our energy future?

When looking at the factors that will influence future energy strategy, it can often pay to look to the past, according to Npower Business Solutions’ head of flexibility services, Ben Spry

4 years ago

Build Back Better: A missed opportunity for institutional change?

4 years ago

SSEN: Making our commitment to net zero

4 years ago

Build Back Better: Local policy and funding crucial – Jeff Hardy

Devolved energy policy and funding would serve decarbonisation best, 60 academics who form the EnergyRev research will tell BEIS, as one of their number Dr Jeff Hardy explains.

4 years ago

Smart meter installations see dramatic recovery

4 years ago

Plan Zero: How Ovo is fighting climate change

September marks a year since Ovo Energy unveiled its Plan Zero pledge to halve its customers’ carbon footprints by 2030. Utility Week catches up with Kate Weinberg, Ovo’s director of sustainability, to discuss how technology and the green recovery is helping meet the target and why Covid-19 should not distract us from the threat of climate change.

4 years ago

Build Back Better: Shades of green for renewable energy

4 years ago

People’s Energy to create 100 jobs after taking over Ovo office

Edinburgh-based challenger brand People’s Energy is creating 100 new jobs in Selkirk after taking over the recently vacated Ovo Energy offices in the town. Husband and wife founders of People’s Energy, Karin Sode and David Pike, said they spotted an opportunity when Ovo closed its Ettrick Riverside building in May.

4 years ago

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