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utILItY WEEK | 5th - 11th August 2016 | 5 The water sector has launched a new information platform for household cus- tomers – discoverwater.co.uk – which is the first of its kind in Europe. It will provide information and statistics about each of the English and Welsh water companies, and will eventually allow customers to compare the performance of each. Information currently shown includes overall performance, environ- mental performance, customer satisfac- tion scores and price comparison. From December, the website will also show company-specific information. Water information website launched for households business stream director Business stream has appointed Derek hendry as its new director of strategy, strengthening of its senior team ahead of the English water market opening in 2017. ofwat bolsters senior team Ofwat has appointed Jenny Block as general counsel and Alena Kozakova as chief economist. Block is currently a partner at Pinsent Masons and will take up her role in september. Kozakova will join Ofwat in August, from Frontier Economics where she is currently a manager in its public policy practice. appoiNtMENts "They've got to hit that critical mass quickly" GB Energy Supply managing director Luke Watson tells Utility Week that small suppliers must grow fast to survive in the current market. Read the full story: http://bit.ly/2arhQLz "An urgent priority" The Institution of Chemical Engineers has warned that deploying carbon capture and storage is "vital" if climate change is to be kept in check. "Too large to be ignored" Castle Water business development director Richard Moore says the deal to buy Thames Water's business customers, which yielded a nine-fold upsurge in its own customer base, was too large to ignore. "Too complex, unpredictable and unfair" Ofwat has urged the water sector to start preparing for new charging rules now, as current arrangements are too complex, unpredictable and unfair. 25% Renewable energy accounted for 25 per cent of the uK's electricity in 2015, replacing coal as the predominant source of electricity generation for the first time, according to government figures. £426k Severn Trent Water has been fined £426,000 for repeated raw sewage leaks into the shire Brook. 1* the Environment Agency has rated south West Water worst in the water industry for environmental performance in 2015. 6m Affinity Water has reduced abstraction by six million litres per day, allowing it to close one of its pumping stations near st Albans. Anglian signs landmark hotel deal Anglian Water Business has signed a landmark multi-site deal with Malmaison and Hotel du Vin to supply water across the luxury hotel chain's entire UK portfolio. The agreement is the first UK- wide, single-contract, multi-site deal and will "leverage the ben- efits" of upcoming market opening. The deal covers all 33 of Mal- maison and Hotel du Vin's boutique hotels, and could yield annual savings of more than £75,000 when the market opens in April 2017. Savings will be made through a combination of lower tariffs, consolidated billing and efficiency measures, including energy audits and the installation of automated meter reading devices. WAtER