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Water | Utility Week
There is no shortage of ideas about the future direction of the water sector, but what do customers say they want? Scott Reid and Melinda Acutt asked them...
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utility_engineering | Janet Wood
For many utility workers out in the field the vehicle is everything: mobile office, workshop, storeroom and canteen. So the choice of vehicle makes all the different to a day's work.
Which is the best? Utility workers have enough to do without test driving new vehicles so Utility Week's sis..
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utility_engineering | Annabel Andrews
Sembcorp UK will boost capacity at Wilton Power Station by 52MW. The firm is to invest £20 million in a Siemens SST400 steam turbine generator.
Expected to be fully operational by mid 2011, the new generator will also improve the plant's efficiency.
Sembcorp sees ..
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utility_engineering | Janet Wood
The government's programme - There are several strands of work going on to provide the framework for companies to build new nuclear power stations in the UK. Most are being managed by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc)...
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utility_engineering | Steve Hobson
A holistic approach to plant maintenance can have a significant impact on productivity and profitability, explains Phil Burge.
Despite a widespread shift from reactive to more proactive programmes, maintenance continues to be perceived as an unavoidable expense in most cases. Across ..
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utility_engineering | Steve Hobson
May Gurney has completed an unusual sewer repair for South West Water using tunnelling techniques learned from local Cornish tin miners.
The emergency repair involved a 45 meter long timber framed "heading" or tunnel dug 11 meters deep beneath the Aveton Gifford bypass section of the A379 P..
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utility_engineering | Steve Hobson
Siemens Energy has awarded the contract to supply the second substation platform (Galloper) for the world's largest offshore wind farm, Greater Gabbard, to McNulty Offshore Construction of South Shields.
McNulty will construct an offshore substation to be housed within a platform 25km off..
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utility_engineering | Annabel Andrews
Severn Trent Water has released £60,000 annual cost savings with a comprehensive revamp of its wastewater treatment site at Loughborough. ITT Water & Wastewater's refurbishment of the existing Activated Sludge Plant (ASP) and Final Settlement Tank (FST) Channel mixing plant has contributed to a 3..
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utility_engineering | Steve Hobson
A new technology that allows Yorkshire Water to replace damaged sewer pipes
without having to dig up the road and disrupt customers has been successfully
put into action at a site in North Yorkshire.
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utility_engineering | Steve Hobson
Wessex Water believes a pioneering experiment using ice could prove to be the way forward for removing iron from water mains.
The company said a trial along a small stretch of main was so successful it may have been just the "tip of the iceberg" for things to come.
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