2025 WINNERS & FINALISTS
Congratulations to the 2025 Winners and Finalists!
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Recognising the companies that are leading the way on decarbonisation by reducing emissions across their own business and/or through particular projects. This award celebrates technical, operational and service innovation which can show a tangible impact and a clear and measurable plan for the future.
2025 WINNERS:
National Grid Electricity Transmission & Mott MacDonald - Carbon Cutting Goes Digital: NGET Supercharges Net Zero with Moata
2025 FINALISTS:
Affinity Water & OCU Group - Connect 2040 – Chaul End & Preston, New Strategic Reservoirs
M Group Energy - Project Levi
National Gas Services - Pioneering Mobile Gas Compression for Emissions Reduction
National Grid Electricity Transmission & Mott MacDonald - Carbon Cutting Goes Digital: NGET Supercharges Net Zero with Moata
Utilita Energy - Rooftop Revolution
Recognising world-class approaches to integrated working between supply chain partners and the role this plays in delivering resilient and efficient lifeline services.
2025 WINNERS:
Scottish Water & Atos UK - Wastewater Intelligent Network (WWIN)
2025 FINALISTS:
Cadent Gas, ICS Consulting, 1000minds, Cogna, Probit - Complexity Unlocked: A Collaborative Framework for Transparent Programme Costing
Scottish Water & Atos UK - Wastewater Intelligent Network (WWIN)
South West Water & Glanville Environmental & Network Plus - Waterfit Infiltration Reduction Programme
Southern Water & Samotics - Rapid collaboration to protect coastal waters
SP Energy Networks and Lucy Electric - Sabre EcoTec
StormHarvester & Anglian Water Services - Proactive Sewer Monitoring and Intervention
VISION & MWHT - Building Faster Together - Accelerating Water Infrastructure Through Collaboration
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Celebrating the utilities that have gone above and beyond in providing outstanding customer experience and engagement over the past year. This award is focused on initiatives that go beyond regulatory requirements and can demonstrate evidence of tangible benefits to customers.
2025 WINNERS:
Octopus Energy - Empathy and Innovation Driving CX Excellence
2025 FINALISTS:
Cadent - Make the right call' campaign
E.ON Next - CX at E.ON Next
Northumbrian Water Group - Smart from the Start, Unlocking Your Customer Super Powers
Octopus Energy - Empathy and Innovation Driving CX Excellence
SGN - Never walking away from a customer in need
UK Power Networks - Reinventing customer experience and trust
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Showcasing the ways in which utilities are offering tailored support to vulnerable customers of all kinds. This includes households struggling financially but also other forms of vulnerability, whether that is disability, digital exclusion or other pressures that could impact on their ability to pay utilities bills.
2025 WINNERS:
Utilita Energy
2025 FINALISTS:
British Gas
Cadent
E.ON Next
Firstsource and E.ON Next
SSEN Distribution
Thames Water
Utilita Energy
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Over the next few years utilities will spearhead an unprecedented wave of infrastructure buildout. This award celebrates the contractors, engineering consultants and other supply chain partners involved in the design, build and maintenance of critical utility infrastructure and assets.
2025 WINNERS:
Stantec
2025 FINALISTS:
Affinity Water and OCU Group
Caledonia Water Alliance
Clancy
Flow Automated Intelligence in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services for Scottish Power Energy Networks
Lanes Group
Stantec
United Infrastructure and National Gas - Feeder 5: Innovation in Gas Pipeline Construction
Recognising the companies that are embracing digital opportunities to transform their businesses and deliver better outcomes for customers.
2025 WINNERS:
Yorkshire Water & Samotics - Predict to Protect: Yorkshire Water’s Digital Transformation Journey
2025 FINALISTS:
Capita in partnership with Southern Water - Agent Assist
National Gas, Capgemini and Premtech - Digital Construction & Investment (DC&I) Programme
Northumbrian Water Group - Smart Sewers
Skewb & Anglian Water - Digitally improving Street Works Compliance with Skewb OPUS
SSEN Transmission - Autodesk Construction Cloud
UK Power Networks and NESO - MW Dispatch
UK Power Networks in partnership with Vyntelligence - Streetworks Digital Transformation
Yorkshire Water & Samotics - Predict to Protect: Yorkshire Water’s Digital Transformation Journey
Identifying employers that are leading the way in ensuring their workforce is reflective of the breadth of society and that every person can see a path to success. This award celebrates innovative approaches to increasing diversity and eliminating barriers to inclusion. Entries can profile individual initiatives and/or a more holistic approach to promoting diversity and inclusion but must be able to show meaningful impact over the past 12 months.
2025 WINNERS:
Elexon - Elexon Together, embracing differences, listening to all voices
2025 FINALISTS:
Elexon - Elexon Together, embracing differences, listening to all voices
Kier Group - Building a culture where everyone belongs
NESO - NESO's DEIB Strategic Approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Vattenfall - Powering Diversity
Wales & West Utilities - Meaningful action for greater gender balance in the utilities sector
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Highlighting the wider impact utilities can have on the communities they operate in as well as their role as stewards of the environment and their wider responsibilities as socially-conscious companies. This award celebrates companies that are going beyond regulatory requirements and can show both ambition and impact over the past 12 months.
2025 WINNERS:
United Utilities - Driving change through rainwater innovation
2025 FINALISTS:
Northumbrian Water Group - Making Harts’ Smart
OVO - Climate Transition Plan
Severn Wye Energy Agency - Reach Out
SP Energy Networks partnership with Wrexham AFC Foundation
SSEN Distribution, GHD, Frontier Economics and ScottishPower Transmission - Nature4Networks
UK Power Networks - Never Forget
United Utilities - Driving change through rainwater innovation
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Celebrating best-in-class performance and innovative approaches to delivering infrastructure projects for the benefit of customers and the environment.
2025 WINNERS:
Clancy & Thames Water - Delivering the impossible
2025 FINALISTS:
Affinity Water & OCU GROUP - Connect 2040 – Chaul End & Preston, New Strategic Reservoirs
Avove & Severn Trent - Strelley to Redhill Trunk Main
Clancy & Thames Water - Delivering the impossible
Eastern Green Link 2 – An electricity superhighway for the energy system of the future
M Group Water - Millenium Main
Northumbrian Water Group and Esh Stantec - WINEP Durham Transfers Scheme
Northumbrian Water Group - Layer to Langford Pipeline
SGN - Birnam to Logierait High Pressure Pipeline Diversion
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Celebrating the ambition, creativity and determination of utilities as they push the boundaries of collaborative innovation.
2025 WINNERS:
Last Mile Heat (Joint venture between Last Mile and Rendesco) - Welborne Garden Village Heat Network
2025 FINALISTS:
Good Energy and Granular Energy - Hourly Matching: Accelerating the transition to 24/7 clean energy
Last Mile Heat (Joint venture between Last Mile and Rendesco) - Welborne Garden Village Heat Network
Northumbrian Water Group - Smart Sewers
OVO Energy and Kaluza - Battery Boost
Serimax in collaboration with Anglian Water - Driving Water Efficiency with Spatter-free Pipeline Welding & Minimal Flush
SGN - High Volume Gas Escape Toolkit
UK Power Networks - UK’s first day-ahead flexibility market
United Utilities - Beyond ALT-P: Taking plant-based coagulants from bench-scale to BAU
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Highlighting the important leadership role utilities play in helping to decarbonise the homes of millions and encouraging behaviour change that ultimately results in lower consumption of energy and / or water. This award celebrates companies that have engaged meaningfully with their customers and acted on this to produce initiatives that can demonstrate a measurable impact.
2025 WINNERS:
Oxfordshire County Council and SMS - Energy Saver App
2025 FINALISTS:
British Gas - Project Florida
Good Energy and Granular Energy - Hourly Matching: Accelerating the transition to 24/7 clean energy
Northern Powergrid & E.ON Next - Empower Flex
Oxfordshire County Council and SMS - Energy Saver App
SSEN Transmission - Pathway to 2030
UK Power Networks - Redefining utility engagement for a fair and flexible future
Utilita Energy - Power Price List
Celebrating the achievements of emerging talent within the utilities sector over the past year. Entrants should be employees of utilities who have been active in the sector for seven years or less.
2025 WINNERS:
Esha Pandey, Project Engineer, SP Energy Networks
2025 FINALISTS:
Chris Babey, Data Scientist, National Grid Electricity Distribution
Ella Moorey, Group Sustainability Lead, Utilita Energy
Esha Pandey, Project Engineer, SP Energy Networks
John Batterson, Change Manager - Green Operation, Cadent
Lucy Webb, Head of People Partnering, So Energy
Rob Belcher, Analytics and DevOps Lead, UK Power Networks
Robyn McKenzie, Project Coordinator, SP Energy Networks
Celebrating the achievements of emerging talent within the utilities sector over the past year. Entrants should be employees of utilities who have been active in the sector for seven years or less.
2025 WINNERS:
Jack Lonsdale, Discipline Lead – Geospatial, Stantec
2025 FINALISTS:
Amy Witts, Quantity Surveying Degree Apprentice, OCU Group
Christopher Cox-Jones, Associate Director, Operations, Firstsource
George Stockdale, Energy & Sustainability Lead, Clancy
Jack Lonsdale, Discipline Lead – Geospatial, Stantec
Lacy Martin, Senior Consultant, Sirio
Nell Clerkin, Bid Manager, United Infrastructure
Scott Clayton, Principal Designer, WGM Engineering
Celebrating best in class employers that are adopting novel ways of training and developing their staff and can show clear plans to futureproof their workforce. This award celebrates the companies that are finding new ways to plug the skills gap and strengthen their offer to current employees.
2025 WINNERS:
Octopus Energy - From Gap to Growth: Training the UK's Green Energy Future
2025 FINALISTS:
British Gas - Energy Academy
E.ON Next and BFY Group - Limitless Leadership
Firstsource and E.ON Next - Project F.I.R.E – Future, Innovation, Resilience, and Empowerment
National Energy System Operator - Early Careers , Power Your Potential
Octopus Energy - From Gap to Growth: Training the UK's Green Energy Future
SGN - SGN Training Centre
UK Power Networks - Trades without Grades
Celebrating the organisations supporting utilities in developing their strategies for the future. This includes creating solutions for customers, planning out services for the future, responding to evolving policy and regulation and strengthening internal processes.
2025 WINNERS:
UK100 and UK Power Networks DSO
2025 FINALISTS:
EA Technology & UKPN
FYLD
Granular Energy
Mesh-AI
Northern Powergrid & E.ON Next
UK100 and UK Power Networks DSO
Recognising an outstanding team which has gone above and beyond the call of duty to deliver benefits for customers, stakeholders and the wider business.
2025 WINNERS:
UK Power Networks - London Investment Delivery programme managers
2025 FINALISTS:
British Gas - British Gas Metering
Firstsource and E.ON Next - Firstsource Smart Operations Team
Scottish Water, m2 (Stantec/Mott MacDonald JV), ARC (Atkins/RPS JV), Caledonia Water Alliance (AECOM/Morrison Water Services) and Clancy - Improving Urban Waters Team
Severn Trent Water - Water Networks
SSEN Transmission - The National HVDC Centre
UK Power Networks - London Investment Delivery programme managers
Highlighting the companies that are going above and beyond in their use of data to drive efficiencies, speed up innovation, progress net zero and benefit customers.
2025 WINNERS:
National Grid and Atos - Triton Digital Twin
2025 FINALISTS:
National Grid & Capgemini - DataConnect Innovation Lab
National Grid and Atos - Triton Digital Twin
National Grid Electricity Distribution - Planning Regional Infrastructure in a Digital Environment (PRIDE)
Northumbrian Water Group and consortia - River Deep Mountain AI (RDMAI)
SGN with FYLD - Predictive Safety Interventions programme
UK Power Networks - Connections Lab – revolutionising grid connections
Zeitview - Continuum
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Celebrating utilities whose cultures and performance demonstrate they are all-round industry exemplars. This award celebrates the companies that are going above and beyond regulatory requirements, to set and meet ambitious targets on delivering for customers, advancing net zero, promoting diversity and enhancing the reputation of the wider sector.
2025 WINNERS:
UK Power Networks
2025 FINALISTS:
E.ON Next
National Grid Electricity Distribution
Northumbrian Water Group
Octopus Energy
SP Energy Networks
SSEN Distribution
UK Power Networks
Utility Warehouse in partnership with Gentrack