July Monthly Round-Up

July Monthly Round-Up

TEC Conference 2025

We’re thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker – Andrew Verity. Andrew is an award-winning Economics Correspondent for BBC News, covering finance and business on BBC Radio and TV as well as reporting for Panorama, BBC Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s investigative strand, File on Four. A Presenter of early morning business and financial news on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Five Live, Andy can be heard on the Today programme, Radio Four’s Six O’clock News and the BBC News TV channel.

Our Framework Suppliers Wave Utilities, EDF Energy and Corona Energy will be supporting the conference again this year and will be available to discuss any questions you may have regarding the Framework.

Find more information about our suppliers and conference supporters here.

You can register your place here.

Scale of Charges Update

As previously communicated by email, our Scale of Charges has been updated. The updated charges document can be found under the “Scale of Charges” section on our website here.

Water Retailer of the Year Winner!

For members who are a part of our Water Framework, you may have seen that Wave have won, for the third time running, Water Retailer of the year! You can read more about this on their website here.

You may also be aware that we took part in one of Wave’s Social Value days in June at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. You can find details from the day in the blog on our website here, as well as photos from the day in our LinkedIn post here.

Green Gown Awards 2025: Finalists

We’re again proud to sponsor to 2030 Climate Action category for this year’s Green Gown Awards. A huge congratulations to all finalists, we wish you the best of luck through the judging stages!

More information can be found here.

Energy & Carbon Reduction Update

September Webinars
We are putting together a series of webinars for September 2025. Here is a list of what we have planned, which we wanted to publish early due to colleagues taking leave and the usual busyness of summer at our member institutions. Contact your MSA for the registrations links.

Friday 12th Sept 11am – Solar Investigations – Dan Fernbank from the University of Reading will present a detailed technoeconomic assessment of rooftop and solar carpark canopy solar PV potential on the University of Reading’s academic campuses, as well as renewable energy generation and energy storage potential on landholdings offsite.  Environmental Insight Partners, who carried out the study, will be on hand for more technical questions.
Friday 19^th Sept 11am – Heritage Buildings Guide – Molly Gregory from Greater South East Net Zero Hub will present their Heritage Building Decarbonisation Guide including information on stakeholder management for a heritage project and a checklist of where to begin and best practice. Please note this is not a technical guide.
Friday 26^th Sept 11am – Heat Pumps Guide – Chris Parkin from Greater South East Net Zero Hub will present their recently published guidance on specifying the Design, Installation and Commissioning of heat pump systems.