Forward features

25 September - INTERCONNECTION

The UK is no longer an island: our one power link with France will be joined by connections with the Netherlands and Ireland, with others in prospect. Add grids for offshore wind and we could finally become fully part of the European electricity market. Meanwhile our gas market is changing as gas arrives from new pipelines. Who is planning what connections? What does this mean for security of supply, for managing the market and for prices? Are we prepared for our energy industries to be driven by global forces?

23 October - WATER FUTURES

With PR09 just around the corner, we look at the industry's plans for 2010-15 and beyond and examine how it will deal with major challenges such as: Leakage - is ELL still relevant to a sustainable future? What effect will the Water Framework Directive have in AMP5? Will customers continue to put up with rising bills? Will the Cave review competition finally get moving?

20 November - ASSET MANAGEMENT

With money tight and climate change still a priority; utilities have to find ways of doing more with less. Rigorous asset replacement and maintenance strategies are essential to extracting maximum productivity and value from the massive investments still being made in assets. We look at the latest developments including: Using GIS to track and monitor assets; selecting and applying optimum maintenance strategies; are utilities making the most of field force mobilization; is multi-skilling the answer to manpower shortages?

Utility Week supplements

11 September - UTILITY ENGINEERING

The autumn edition of Utility Engineering, providing even more information on the hands-on side of utility operations.

October - IT/Software

Utility IT best practice and innovation - central information systems, IT for customers (billing, customer relationship management, complaints handling etc) and IT for assets (enterprise asset management, enterprise resource planning, field force enablement etc).

Utility Week will not publish on Jan 2 and 9, Apr 17, Jul 3 and 31, Aug 14, 21 and 28 and Dec 11 and 25