UTILITY WEEK | SEPTEMBER 2022 |
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Contents
The Review 6
Water 8
Drought puts focus on cutting demand
Expert View 11
Opendatasoft: The benefi ts of open data in the water industry
Policy 12
Bills crisis demands action
Energy 14
Utility Week's mission to tackle the energy trilemma
Analysis 16
Constant encryption is the only way to guarantee security
Roundtable 18
Is a shared PSR within grasp?
Energy retail 20
Calls build for a social tariff
Talking Points 23
Download report 24
How well do you know your customers?
Comment 26
Maxine Frerk: ED2 draft determinations: where's the vision?
Research report 28
Optimising processes can reap big benefi ts
Fighting drought
Return of hosepipe bans focuses minds
on failings over water efficiency
ENERGY
Tackling the trilemma
ENERGY RETAIL
Calls build for a social tariff
UW INNOVATE
Model answers to net-zero
housing challenges
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Utility Week Innovate
Water 30
Building a real-time picture of bathing water quality
Technology 33
Northumbrian Water 'self-healing' leakage solution
Tech Talk 33
S&C's self-resetting interrupter
Comment 34
Achieving net zero requires 'bold steps' away from SF6
Q&A 35
Meet the innovators: UKPN's Lynne McDonald
Energy 36
Model answers to net-zero housing challenges
Events calendar 38
