Plymouth City Council is inviting interested organisations to register for a Bidders Day on 10th April 2025 to hear about plans for the development of a £3.5 billion heat network for Plymouth - places will be offered on a first come, first served basis.
Combined authorities across Great Britain could see up to £95 billion worth of investment by decarbonising the heating of homes and buildings through heat networks, according to the Association for Decentralised Energy’s (ADE) latest research, which explores the potential of heat networks and the value they could provide across nine combined authorities in Great Britain.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has gone out to tender with a contract to put an Energy and Net Zero Professional Services Framework in place worth an estimated £500 million.
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has gone out to tender with a wide-ranging framework contract for demand management and renewables worth an estimated £800 million (excluding VAT).
Southern Water’s Bluewave team are working with local councils and specialist suppliers on an innovative project to use the heat generated in the sewer network as a low carbon heating source in the community.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.
bNovate has launched BactoCloud, a secure cloud-based platform that connects and manages its BactoSense instruments, enabling real-time monitoring and optimization of microbial water quality.