UTILITY WEEK | MAY 2023 |
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Contents
The Review 6
Networks 8
Change the culture if you want to retain female staff
Campaign launch 10
Utilities must act now to support customers next winter
Water 13
Firms seem resigned to Ofwat licence powers
Expert View 13
S&C on the evolution of asset management
Energy 14
Is the Energy Security Plan fi t for purpose?
Expert View 17
Guidehouse says long-duration storage is the new frontier
Water 18
How much of a problem for the water sector is high gearing?
Talking Points 22
Customers 24
Full report from Utility Week's 2023 Customer Summit
Energy 26
Communications systems will be critical to net zero
Electricity 28
How vulnerable to gaming was the Demand Flexibility Service?
High Viz 30
SSE digs deep to build out its Seagreen wind farm
Electricity 32
An interview with National Grid president, UK
strategic infrastructure, Carl Trowell
Energy 34
High Court vindication for Octopus in its battle for Bulb
Event 36
Data and digitalisation at Utility Week Live 2023
ENERGY
The winners and losers of the
government's Energy Security Plan
ELECTRICITY
Demand Flexibility Service was
vulberable to 'gaming'
CAMPAIGN
We must act now to protect
customers next winter
Drowning
in debt…
How much of a problem is high
gearing in the water sector?
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