Scottish Water has completed work on a £706,000 green energy scheme at a site near Falkirk, which is set to save around 135 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year.
After less than a year in his job, a Scottish Water apprentice has clinched both Scottish and UK top awards for his innovative work and presentation on using the natural flow of water to generate electricity.
Severn Trent, owners of Severn Trent Water and Hafren Dyfrdwy, has announced the acquisition by subsidiary Severn Trent Green Power of Andigestion Ltd, which operates two food waste anaerobic digestion plants in Devon and Gloucestershire, in its latest trading update.
Scottish Water‘s Seafield waste water treatment works has reached a renewable energy milestone - the works now generates more power than it needs to operate.
Northumbrian Water has taken further steps to achieve Net Zero in 2027 and reduce energy costs with the installation of more green energy generation on a number of its sites.
Scottish Water has awarded a contract for solar Photovoltaic (PV) servicing and maintenance services worth an estimated £1.5 million to Glasgow-based firm Absolute Solar and Wind Ltd.
In an industry first, Costain has launched its detailed climate change action plan in which it commits to deliver low carbon solutions, including tackling ‘Scope 3’ emissions, to every client by 2023 and to be net zero by 2035.
Irish Water is reducing the carbon footprint of treatment plants in Limerick and Tipperary through a sustainable energy pilot project.
Diversification of the fuel mix in power generation, including the introduction of significant renewable energy capacity and the expansion of much needed additional power generation, has a major place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Vision 2030 plans.
Scottish Water has completed a major new solar PV installation at its waste water treatment facility in Erskine.
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.
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.”