Unlocking Data Award
Highlighting the companies making the most effective use of data to drive efficiencies, speed up innovation, progress net zero and benefit customers.
Unlocking Data Award
Highlighting the companies making the most effective use of data to drive efficiencies, speed up innovation, progress net zero and benefit customers.
Camlin Group
From Risk to Resilience: Turning Data into Action Across the Electricity Network
Camlin delivers smarter, safer, and more resilient electricity networks by turning data into decisive action for its customers and inside its own business. LineSIGHT gives distribution network operators real-time visibility of overhead lines, replacing reactive repair with early, precise intervention. Sapient brings that insight together with data from across the network into one living picture operators can act on. The same approach drives Project RISE, Camlin's transformation of its own data backbone. Independent modelling by Imperial College London shows continuous monitoring can lift network resilience from 56% to 99.9% once insight is used to prevent outages, not just record them.
FYLD
Unlocking real-time field data to make every utility job predictable
Every utility worksite generates data, but almost none of it used to be usable. FYLD, the AI-powered frontline intelligence platform, changes that by capturing video, voice, and risk data at the point of work and turning it into real-time, predictive insight that reaches everyone from the crew to the boardroom. Built on more than 50TB of field data, FYLD has powered over 126,000 AI-led site assessments, cut evidence capture time by 71%, and helped customers reduce serious incidents by up to 48%. Utilities act on what is happening in the field as it happens, not weeks later in a report.
Kraken Technologies
Kraken Generation Flexibility
Kraken processes 20 billion data points from battery energy storage systems across Great Britain daily – that’s more than the number of transactions Visa or Mastercard processes globally each day. Kraken Generation Flexibility turns raw telemetry data – collected from assets 20 times per second – into real-time grid response, optimised dispatch, and transparent settlement. During peak demand on 23 June 2026, battery flexibility was ≤37% cheaper than gas, with NESO accepting BESS actions at £442/MWh, against a peak of £700/MWh for gas. Kraken’s data pipeline deployed 1.8GW of batteries, providing cleaner, cheaper energy when it was most needed.
Northumbrian Water
Smart Sewers
Smart Sewer is transforming how Northumbrian Water manages its wastewater network by turning data into action. Combining approximately 800 sensors, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and a real-time digital twin, the system enables teams to predict network performance, optimise flows and intervene before problems occur. By making better use of existing infrastructure and providing up to 12 hours’ advance warning of network pressures, Smart Sewer has helped reduce spills at Howdon Sewage Treatment Works and contributed to significant reductions in storm overflow activity across the region. It demonstrates the power of data-driven decision-making to deliver environmental, operational and customer benefits.
Samotics
From signal to intervention: 2,000 detections that led to action
A blockage in a wastewater pumping station gives no warning. Rag and fat build in the wet well until it overflows, and the first anyone knows is a spill or a phone call. Electrical data gives it away first. Samotics spent the past year pointing its analytics at that failure and the ones like it, and utilities confirmed more than 1,000 detections in 12 months, with 98% accuracy on blockages and airlocks. Those detections prevented £31 million in costs, verified by the utilities, and the pace is rising: the first 1,000 confirmed detections took six years; the second under one.
SP Electricity North West
LCT Readiness Checker
Our industry-leading geospatial LCT Readiness Checker decision-support tool is the first of its kind. Covering 2.4 million properties, this easy-to-use tool enables our stakeholders to find out if their property is ready to connect low carbon technologies (LCTs), such electric vehicles and heat pumps, by identifying constraints. The new tool has streamlined the LCT installation process and is helping thousands of customers and installers plan installations and avoid unexpected delays.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution
Near Real-Time Data Access (NeRDA)
NeRDA is a pioneering platform that shares up to 8 million data points every 10 minutes, offering near real-time visibility into the electricity network. This level of transparency is unmatched and sets a new standard for open data in the energy sector. NeRDA provides operational, customer and system-wide benefits by improving the accuracy, visibility and accessibility of SSEN’s network data. This enables more efficient planning, reduces stakeholder costs and supports wider digitalisation and decarbonisation objectives. NeRDA provides stakeholders with granular power flow data across EHV, HV, and LV networks, accelerating the transition to a smarter more flexible grid.
Thames Water and Baringa Partners
Turning Smart Metering from Output-Led to an Outcome-Led Value Engine
Most smart meter programmes optimise for how many meters are installed. Thames Water, in partnership with Baringa, now optimises for what they achieve, shifting smart metering from a volume-led programme into an outcome-led value engine. At its heart, the Deployment Optimisation Centre (DOC) directs a c.£650m AMP8 programme’s investment, combining property prioritisation, scenario modelling and real-time insight to drive proactive, data-led actions across metering, retail, regulatory, finance and customer teams. Year 1 unlocked 276,000 installs (200% up on AMP7 Year 1), a sixfold appointment conversion rise, 15 Ml/d of leakage and consumption benefit, and £20-30m+ of further AMP8 value identified.
UK Power Networks
From network data to Net Zero connections
UK Power Networks' DSO transformed the connections application experience for developers, helping more clean energy reach the network faster by putting developers in control of early decisions. In 2025/26, its GB-first Connections Lab opened access to the modelling used by UKPN planners, helping developers test options before paying for connection studies. They have used it to assess 105GW, avoid over £2 million in study costs and identify 47 flexible connections totalling 0.5GW. Behind it, richer operational insight and planning data and open-source Python tools widened access to network intelligence for smaller developers, researchers and the engineers shaping Britain’s energy future.