Utility Week

UtILItY WeeK | 23rd - 30th September 2016 | 5 Wessex Water is leading calls for a ban on the word "flushable" on wet wipes, which are clogging toilets, drains and sewers. The water company has written to the Advertising Standards Authority calling for an end to "misleading" branding and packaging. The company has to clear more than 13,000 blockages every year in its sewers. Electralink launches Energy Theft and Tip Off Service Electralink has launched the Energy Theft and Tip Off Service, the final element in a project to allow suppliers to improve the identification and detection of energy theft. Implementation of the service comes after Electralink, which provides governance services and a regulated data transmissions service to the gas and electricity market, launched its Theft Risk Assessment Service (TRAS) in April 2016. Crimestoppers also began a consumer energy theft service this week (see story below). Electralink chief executive Stuart Lacey said: "The Energy Theft and Tip Off Service project, as well as the earlier delivery of the back-end Theft Risk Assessment Service, covers both gas and electricity, requiring changes to industry codes, co-ordination between suppliers, and implementation of the data analytics service." eNergY "Spectacularly poor value for money" Liberal Democrat activists voted in favour of a motion to scrap Hinkley Point C at the party's conference in Brighton 38,000 Lightning storms hit parts of the north east of england on 16 September, cutting power to 38,000 Northern powergrid customers. £40m Amount United Utilities will invest to significantly reduce the amount of phosphorus in Lake Windermere in Cumbria's Lake district. Howard Boyd confirmed as chair of EA emma howard boyd has been confirmed as the new chair of the environment Agency. She was appointed to the board in 2009 and was made deputy chair in 2015. She became acting chair in January 2016 after former chair philip dilley stepped down from his post. AppoiNTMENTs 1m New figures from Energy UK reveal more than a million cus- tomers switched their electricity supplier between June and August this year. Crimestoppers has partnered with the energy industry to launch a dedicated service in an attempt to tackle the 150,000 cases of energy the in the UK every year. The independent charity is working with all 96 UK energy suppliers and distributors to launch the anonymous crime hotline and website, which the public can use to report crimes, and will also be used to provide information.

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