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UTILITY WEEK | 15TH - 21ST SEPTEMBER 2017 | 5 Utilita Energy has been appointed energy supplier and energy partner for Aston Villa Football Club. As part of the partnership, Utilita branding has been installed on the dugouts at Villa Park and will also be featured next to the goals at Villa Park. Utilita is also offering Aston Villa-branded in-home display covers and smart meters to fans who switch to the supplier, as well as a £25 credit to spend with the football club. ELECTRICITY Swansea Tidal Lagoon secures grid connection Tidal Lagoon Power has secured the grid connection for a 3,240MW capacity tidal lagoon project, based between Cardiff and Newport. The company has accepted an offer from National Grid Electricity Transmission, subject to a final sign off by the government, for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project to be the pathfinder scheme. The proposed Cardiff tidal lagoon project would consist of a 20.5km breakwater wall, housing up to 108 turbines within at least two powerhouse units. By enclosing around 70km of the Severn Estuary, the scheme would pass an average of around 600 million cubic metres of water through its turbines on each tidal cycle. "While we await the government's response to this offer and to the independent Hendry review of tidal lagoons, we have continued our development work on the subsequent programme," said Tidal Lagoon Power's chief executive, Mark Shorrock. £666k Fine handed down to United Utili- ties this week for polluting a river with untreated sewage effluent in Greater Manchester in 2014. £270 Amount by which energy efficiency measures could cut households' average annual bills, according to research from the UK Energy Research Centre. "[Dieter Helm] should now stop money being squandered on expensive low carbon projects" New Nuclear Watch Europe chairman Tim Yeo weighs into the cost of energy debate. See p20 Showerstoyou.co.uk has used Water UK data to find the average combined water and sew- erage bill over the past three years. It found that in the past three years, South West Water had the highest combined water and sewerage bill, with the average household paying £491 per year; despite the fact their average bill has decreased by £4 in the last three years (-0.80 per cent). This equates to just over £1.30 per day in water fees – a 26p increase compared to the average. Wessex Water has the second highest combined water and sewerage bill in Eng- land and Wales, with the average household having to pay £470 per year – £5 more than the bill three years-ago (1.07 per cent). Average water bills £300-£373 £374-£400 £401-£430 £431-£450 £451-£500 Average water bill (water and sewerage) in England and Wales (2017/18) Source: Water UK