UTILITY WEEK | DECEMBER 2021 |
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Contents
The Review 6
COP round-up 8
We get the industry's reaction to COP26
Adpating to Net Zero Conference report 10
What utilities must do to prepare for the energy transition
Utility Week Awards shortlist 12
All the runners and riders for this year's Awards
Energy Reset, analysis 16
Billpayers foot the cost of failed suppliers
Energy Reset, interview 19
Martin Young, an analyst with Investec
AWARDS
Utility Week 2021 Awards
shortlist revealed
ENERGY RESET
Customers will pay in the end
for string of supplier failures
GAS
The sector must prepare
the ground for hydrogen
Keep it clean
Water firms challenged over sewage
discharges, but where's the funding?
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Customers
Talking points 29
Analysis 30
Breaking down trust barriers
in the data revolution
Analysis 32
Nailing the feedback loop
of customer complaints
Innovate
Event 34
Innovation and the water sector
Analysis 36
Digitising asset data can pay off
with whole system integration
Event 38
Utility Week's Hydrogen Forum
Analysis 40
SGN's Hydrogen home
heating trial
Q&A 41
Yasmin Ali, BEIS
Events calendar 42
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Policy & Regulation
Talking points 21
Analysis 22
Will the Heat and Buildings
Strategy deliver?
Analysis 25
CMA makes fi nal RIIO2 calls on
transmission and gas distribution
Analysis 26
Water companies must not be the
fall guys for CSO inaction
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