Utility Week

UTILITY WEEK | OCTOBER 2021 | 15 Special report sterile then we can potentially do less at the end. This will have a big e ect on time, money, carbon and sustainability of the programme." Since 2009, all of Anglian's capital pro- jects have been assessed for carbon, leading to a 61 per cent reduction across all projects from that baseline. The company is now on a journey to get to 65 per cent reduction by the end of this AMP and 70 per cent reduc- tion by 2030. "Every scheme has its own capital carbon target, it's important to not only look at oper- ational emissions but make sure we aren't building things in the same way and incur- ring carbon as a by-product," Simpson said. Driving out the carbon as well as cost eˆ - ciencies means traditional approaches have been challenged to hit the targets. Crompton says: "There's always more than one way to achieve an outcome so we looked at di erent materials, techniques, innovative technologies and working with the supply chain. Suppliers start to leap-frog one another to o er lower carbon alterna- tives to cement and mixers. It really drives the supply chain agenda." Driving down carbon has simultaneously reduced costs through eˆ cient and simpler approaches, Crompton explains. Producers and manufacturers challenged each step in the processes to make carbon savings, which translated to lower costs. Simpson, who is one of the sector leads on the Public Interest Commitment to reach net zero carbon by 2030, says: "We track car- bon as a company very closely. The digital twin opportunities to look at how systems can work optimally. The twin allows us to run scenarios that would not only o er the best quality but also the lowest environmen- tal impact in terms of carbon." Ruth Williams, water correspondent Key facts Up to 500km of interconnecting strategic main pipeline to bring water in stages from north Lincolshire to the south and east of the East of England The new pipeline will also strengthen local resilience by reducing the number of homes and businesses which rely on a single water source. An investment of around half a billion, pounds which will be completed by 2025. A route longer than HS2, or almost twice the length of the M6 motorway. Without the pipeline the East of England would face a water de- cit of 30 million litres a day by 2025. That's a shortfall of 4,380 Olympic swimming pools of water, every year. "At the heart of this is to come up with a new way of building, operating and maintaining [the network]– the digital twin is integral tothat." Peter Simpson, CEO, Anglian Water "At the heart of this is to come up with a new way of building, operating and maintaining [the network]– the digital twin is integral tothat." Peter Simpson

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