Keeping Us Connected

UKPN’s Simon Deeley and Euan Macrae: Keeping Us Connected

As part of Utility Week’s Keeping Us Connected campaign, we highlight two UK Power Networks employees who are helping their communities battle coronavirus – through delivery of vital PPE and assisting the St John Ambulance.

Keeping Us Connected: CWA donates PPE to ambulance crews

Keeping Us Connected: Portsmouth battles the clock on Covid-19 test site

Portsmouth Water's Bob Taylor explains how the company has connected a coronavirus testing centre during and shown the community-centric values at the heart of everyone in the business. He highlights key members of the team who worked around the clock to deliver the project.

Keeping Us Connected: SPEN drives support in the community

Our Keeping Us Connected campaign is showcasing how the utilities sector is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Here we take a look at how Scottish Power Energy Networks is supporting some of its most vulnerable customers, as well as keeping young children occupied during lockdown.

Keeping Us Connected: Scottish Water keeps close eye on remote communities

Keeping Us Connected: SVT extends support for suppliers and customers

Severn Trent has committed to paying £38 million to its small and medium-sized suppliers to help the businesses stay afloat while non-essential work is on-hold. As well as suppliers the company is assisting customers with bills and donating to community groups on the frontline during the pandemic.

Keeping Us Connected: Centrica saves foodbank

NGN’s Chris Garside and Andy Simcoe: Keeping Us Connected

Cadent’s Habib Rehman: Keeping Us Connected

Keeping Us Connected: Crisis Management

Energy UK interim chief executive Audrey Gallacher writes for Utility Week about how the sector has risen to the challenges presented by coronavirus. She is backing our Keeping Us Connected campaign as giving recognition “for those whose services go unnoticed in happier times, but have been shown to be indispensable when our country has been put to the test”.

Keeping Us Connected: Drax to distribute 700 laptops to local students

UKPN’s Kellie Dillon and Kelvin Lee: Keeping Us Connected

In the first of what we hope will be many nominations from the sector, we celebrate the ingenuity in the face of adversity of two UK Power Networks (UKPN) employees, who developed and rapidly rolled out a way of helping customers cope under lockdown.