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USIT will pay delegate fees and up to £100 expenses* for attendance at the following seminars being run by SBGI in 2012:

Data & Communications Management, 30 May, Savoy Place, London more info

Utility Metering, 20 September, Motor Cycle Museum, Birmingham more info

(*Maximum five places available at each event. Places offered on a first come first served basis)

As well as hearing from key influential speakers, both seminars will be supported by informative and topical exhibitions showcasing the latest technologies and solutions.

To receive your FREE place, please submit a short explanation of how you expect to benefit from attending the event to caroline@sbgi.org.uk. The closing date for the CPD Awards is 30 April.

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Develop is a national operator that delivers technical training and assessments across the UK, supported by five dedicated regional Training Centres.  Develop is one of the few providers delivering multi-utility training for both traditional and environmental technologies and is the only one that offers a distinctive blend of technical and behavioural training

“We are extremely proud of the progress that Develop has made over the last 12 months.” Commented Develop’s Executive Chairman, Rod Tompsett, who has been in post for two years. “We are delighted to be able to report that our financial performance has exceeded expectations in  a very challenging economic environment.”

It was reported in April this year that more than two-fifths of organisations have decreased funding for learning and development and only one in 10 anticipate an increase in the next 12 months, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. This is borne out with an increasing demand for far more efficient training and a greater return on training investment.

Develop attributes its positive results to some significant achievements this year as well as the successful implementation of a strategy to innovate, drive efficiencies and improve quality and delivery of its training.

Major accomplishments include Develop being retained by National Grid as a core supplier of technical training and being awarded the contract for the supply of technical training by Anglian Water Group.  Develop also achieved first stage recognition on training excellence accreditation (TX, formerly the Training Quality Standard) and is working towards full recognition as a provider of training excellence.      

The amount of training delivered by Develop has increased, most significantly in facilities management.  Also Develop’s ground-breaking behavioural training and assessments
offer has contributed the best ever results this year.

With one of Develop’s objectives being ‘to innovate and to invest in the future’ advances have been established this year to help clients maximise their budgets through greater efficiencies, specifically through bespoke IT.

Develop is already planning for even better results in 2012 and working hard to ensure that its success continues.  Significant investments are planned in the on-going commitment to deliver best value and effective training to its clients, utilising the local Training Centres and extending its highly specialised offer for the growing environmental technologies sector.

Rod added; “Despite our success in 2011 we are very aware it is a challenging environment. But it is our belief that by continuing to innovate and drive efficiencies will allow us to better service our client base of major utility, construction and facilities management companies, and public sector bodies.  We have a committed and highly skilled team at Develop who are all dedicated to achieving even better results in the coming years.”

ENDS

For further information contact Kathryn Greenwood or Clare Farley on 0115 852 4717 or email kathryn@edenpr.co.uk/ clare@edenpr.co.uk

Notes to Editors

Develop Training Limited is the leading technical skills training provider in the UK, has a turnover in excess of £16m and employs 115 staff (including over 39 full time trainers).

Originating in 2000, Develop operate through Training Centres across the UK offering training, consultancy and assessment programmes across all industry sectors. Clients include major utility, construction and facilities management companies, as well as public sector bodies such as the NHS, councils and the Ministry of Defence.

Develop provides training from apprenticeship level to post professional development offering in excess of 400 open and bespoke courses.   As part of ongoing investment in maintaining its position at the forefront the technical training sector, Develop is investing in behavioural training and has created a revolutionary new leadership program called MaTE ‘Managing a Technical Environment’.

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Utility Metering Speakers

Policy and regulation, review of smart trials, thoughts on the DCC and UK delivery were the key topics at the recent SBGI Utility Networks ‘Utility Metering’ Seminar held in Birmingham. The event was attended by over 150 delegates and Chaired by Richard St Clair and David Thompson of Elster Metering. Delegates from across the supply chain enjoyed stimulating presentations from a broad range of speakers and high quality networking provided by the topical exhibition. Look out for the detailed report of this event in the Winter issue of Utility Business.

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Along with other researchers Dr Bill Nuttall, Dr David Reiner and Dr Pierre Noël, they examine the impact on nuclear policy in the short and longer term and the implications of an extended period of high oil prices.

In the new podcast Dr Pollitt, says that as Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) battles to decommission its four damaged reactors at Fukushima, the world watches to see how global energy prices will respond, particularly the demand for oil, gas and renewables. Dr Pollitt says liberalising the power market and reducing the demand for energy should become even more important post-Japan:

“The structure of the Japanese nuclear industry is based on regional monopolies which supply their own customers in their own areas with limited interaction between the rest of Japan. Japan itself is split into two grids, which are only weakly connected. You can’t get much electricity from the West into the East where Tokyo is. This is a result of not liberalising the market as much as we have done in the UK and Europe.

“I think what we can observe is that it is impossible to predict what will happen in energy markets. This is why they need to be as global as possible to provide the sort of energy security that Japan now requires. I would venture one prediction and that is that it will cause a redoubling of our efforts on demand-side management and demand reduction, which both reduce our energy requirements and our carbon emissions. If our technical options become more restricted on the supply side, it pushes us back to demand side interventions.”

This will be the subject of Dr Michael Pollitt’s forthcoming column in the Summer edition of Utility Business – coming soon….

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