United Utilities engineers are making some of the final connections ahead of the switch-on of Europe’s biggest floating solar power system.
12,000 panels have been installed at Godley reservoir in Manchester. The system, which cost £3.5 million, will provide the water firm with 2.7GWh of energy every year – which is more than a third of Godley’s power requirements.
Over the last 12 weeks, the panels and their floats have been connected together and positioned in the middle of the reservoir. Covering a total of 45,500 square metres, the scheme is part of United Utilities’ ongoing carbon reduction strategy. The water firm has a target to generate 35 per cent of its power requirements from renewables by 2020.
United Utilities wants to reduce its annual £65 million energy costs which, ultimately, will help to keep customer bills as low as possible.
See the time-lapse video to see the work in progress on the Waterbriefing Watch channel
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.
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UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
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