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Sailing the Ship Together

STRATEGY & INNOVATION

Alex Mortlock – Wastewater Infrastructure Strategy ManagerKara Cartwright – Innovation Implementation Manager

SEVERN TRENT ASSET MANAGEMENT MODEL

SETTING SAIL FOR SUCCESS!

IMPLEMENTING INNOVATION – AN EXAMPLE

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OUR WASTE NETWORKS STRATEGY

THE DESTINATION!

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INNOVATION APPROACH

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OPEN INNOVATION APPROACH

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AMP6 APPROACH

#lovemylogger

Intelligent Pumping Stations

FOG Dosing Trials

Asset Health dashboards

Drones

Loggers

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AMP7 APPROACH – BUSINESS PARTNERING

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CHALLENGES AND EARLY AMP7 INITIATIVES

• 0.5% of network visible

• Location of PDAS assets

• Permanent monitoring of asset condition

• Machine learning & AI

• Utilising existing sewer capacity

• Repairs with minimal customer impact

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CONCLUSIONS

• Made great progress over AMP6• External flooding has been a stand out success• Learning from experience and embedding innovation into

business planning• Great crew to sail the ship: Strategy, Operations and Innovation

key to success• We are currently filling our innovation funnel for AMP7 to drive

performance