UTILITY WEEK | APRIL 2023 |
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Contents
The Review 6
Interview 8
Caroline Flint, chair, Committee on Fuel Poverty
Electricity 12
How smart are Britain's energy tariffs?
Expert View 15
Semtech on standardisation across utilities
Water 16
Water sector leaders are pondering how to support
customers through economic turbulence
Expert View 19
Guidehouse talks 'no regret' investment in energy infrastructure
Regulation 20
Planning delays are crippling the rollout of green energy projects
Regulation 22
Maxine Frerk looks at Northern Powergrid's CMA appeal
Customers 24
Best behaviour: getting to grips with behavioural science
Talking Points 27
High Viz 28
Reactor makes landfall at Hinkley Point C
Water 30
Severn Trent's pioneering work to measure process
emissions from wastewater treatment
Distribution 32
Northern Powergrid trials handing over control of local networks
Water 34
Equity and diversity in the workplace is not just
morally right – it makes sound business sense
DISTRIBUTION
Empowering
local communities
ENERGY RETAIL
Unleashing the potential
of smart tariffs
INTERVIEW
Caroline Flint, Committee
on Fuel Poverty
It's all about
connections
Smart investment is needed to build
a grid fit for a net-zero future
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