The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make energy, water and telecoms infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change.
National Grid plc has announced that it has agreed to sell a 60% equity interest in its UK gas transmission and metering business to a consortium of long-term infrastructure investors comprised of Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI).
Anglian Water looking for early market engagement with the supply chain as part of an exercise to review their options for the implementation of a new framework for Modelling Optimisation.
Northumbrian Water says that the world is on the brink of the next evolution in mobile technology with the advent of the 5G network set to super power a smart grid and deliver unprecedented benefits for customers, communities and households.
Severn Trent is trialling satellite technologies to detect leakage from space – the water company is already using drones to spot leaks from the air.
Oliver Grievson, Flow Compliance & Regulatory Efficiency Manager, Anglian Water explores what it means for a wastewater network to be “Smart” and how it can help the water industry to make better, more informed decisions about how to operate the wastewater network.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.