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Top tweets My Electric Avenue @MyElectricAve4m 'DNOs are trying to make the world a better place' says customer @eatechnology #LCNF2013 Chris Bradbury @chrisb_up20h Consensus seems to suggest much more research and technical innovation still to come from the LV network. Good news all round! #LCNF2013 Tom Greatrex MP @tomgreatrexmp23h MT "@MyElectricAve: Fantastic to have @tomgreatrexmp as VIP #NissanLEAF passenger this am. #LCNF2013" > VIP = very impressed passenger. South West Water has finished installing 860 solar panels on the roof of its headquarters in Exeter. The panels are capable of producing 210,000kWh of electricity a year – more than 10 per cent of the building's annual electricity use – all of which will be used on site. Energy Electricity The number of energy consumers in debt, according to Ofgem East Anglia power line postponed 5% £1bn The amount energy suppliers have banked from green levies, while only performing a fraction of the work, according to the LGA "I look forward to ensuring Severn Trent continues to go from strength to strength" Liv Garfield, newly appointed chief executive of Severn Trent, who takes over from Tony Wray A key transmission link in East Anglia has been put on hold after generators said they would not need it until the early 2020s. The 400,000V electricity connection between Bramford in Suffolk and Twinstead in Essex was due to be built by 2017. The 27km line will be needed to allow new generation to connect, including East Anglia Offshore Wind, a gas plant at King's Lynn, and Sizewell C new nuclear plant. However, the timetables for all three projects have been pushed back, with work on the wind project not now starting until 2017. Janet Wood @Janet_qofe5m #LCNF2013 A suggestion that customers won't understand what @energynetworks do! Firmly quashed by customer who now understands – and admires Jessica Lennard @JessicaLennard Fed up of misuse of terms! Cut means cut, moved means moved, delayed means delayed and green means green not social welfare! #ECO Ann Robinson @AnnRobinson8 A return to my theme tune. Find some one you know needs help and get them a better energy deal - you may save a life. Steve Hawkes @steve_hawkes54m Only 219 households have signed up to the Government's Green Deal programme.. perhaps they understand why energy co's missing targets? Karl-Erik Stromsta @KEStromsta1h Garrad: For crowded Northern EU countries, offshore wind "pretty much the only way of generating large scale renewables" #EWEAOFFSHORE2013 Heather Jackson @jackson_heather3h Congrats to Liv Garfield on her role as CEO of Severn Trent. An authentic role model & leader who just happens also to be female, wife & mum Lucy P. Marcus @lucymarcus4h New Severn Trent boss Liv Garfield boosts ranks of female FTSE 100 chief execs to a whopping 4 (soon 3 again) UTILITY WEEK | 22nd - 28th November 2013 | 5