The future of the world’s largest tidal power scheme in Scotland is now uncertain following on from last week’s 2017 allocation round for contracts for difference (CfDs) for renewable energy projects which saw its Phase 1C proposed £200 million expansion lose out to established technologies such as offshore wind.

Eleven UK-based businesses are visiting Singapore this week as part of a global innovation mission by Innovate UK, the Government innovation agency.

Thames Water is using innovative software that cuts costs, enhances health and safety and fosters collaborative working across the company’s major projects.

The UK is coordinating a €5 million EU-funded project to construct an underwater kite to harness tidal energy - the goal is to build and install kites with spans of 12 meters, each designed to produce up to 1.6 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

Scottish Water is utilising innovative new Nereda technology for the first time in Scotland on its new £21 million state of the art waste water treatment works at Inverurie.

Anglian Water has been trialling an innovative pump blockage detection device at over 200 of its sites - early results have shown a 70 per cent reduction in blockages, and in many instances engineers no longer have to visit troublesome sites.