UTILITY WEEK | 13TH - 19TH SEPTEMBER 2019 |
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Utility of the Future: climate change
The Utility of the Future is being adopted as the headline
theme of next year's Utility Week Live, the UK's leading
utility conference and exhibiton.
"Government,
regulators, companies
and other stakeholders
are starting to
work much more
collaboratively with
a common cause, but
many barriers – both
policy and cultural –
still exist."
TREVOR BISHOP,
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR, WRSE
CAPACITY AND COSTS
WATER CAPACITY NEEDED
COMPARISON BETWEEN EMERGENCY COSTS AND RESILIENCE COSTS
WATER SAVED IN 2015 UNDER DIFFERENT METERING OPTIONS
"It is only when people
have an understanding
of how much water
they use and how they
use it that we will see a
step change in people's
water-using behaviour.
Smart metering can
help unlock that
challenge."
TOM ANDREWARTHA, DIRECTOR
OF STRATEGY AND POLICY,
WATERWISE
Source: Commission calculations, based on data from Water UK, water companies and the Environment Agency and using the NISMOD
model developed by the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium
Source: Commission calculations and analysis, using input from Atkins, Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium and Regulatory Economics
Source: Commission calculations
Low population,
medium climate
High population,
high climate
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000
Capacity needed by 2050 to maintain 1%
drought resilience
Costs to maintain the current level of resilience Costs of increasing resilience Emergency costs
0.5% drought resilience
Additional capacity (million litres per day)
Costs
(£
billion)
Ml/day
0.2% drought resilience
0.5% drought –
Low population and
medium climate
Baseline 95% metering
by 2030
95% metering
by 2035
95% smart
metering
by 2030
95% smart
metering
by 2035
0.2% drought
Low population and
medium climate
0.5% drought –
High population
and high climate
0.2% drought –
High population
and high climate
45
40
30
30
20
20
15
10
5
0
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
