Category: Utilities

  • Ardent Sponsors Utility Week Forum 2025 

    Ardent Sponsors Utility Week Forum 2025 

    Ardent is proud to announce its sponsorship of the Utility Week Forum 2025, one of the Utility sector’s leading events bringing together decision-makers and innovators from across the water, gas and energy industries.   The Forum provides a vital platform for collaboration between utility infrastructure providers, policymakers, and supply chain partners as the sector works…

  • Ardent appointed to support major National Grid projects

    Ardent appointed to support major National Grid projects

    Ardent is delighted to share that we have been appointed to support National Grid on three major projects supporting the Great Grid Upgrade. The success follows our appointment to National Grid’s UK Land and Property (UKLP) framework for Land Rights and Land Referencing last autumn to support the transition towards net zero. Ardent has been…

  • Government plans to speed up electricity network connections – Help or hindrance?

    Government plans to speed up electricity network connections – Help or hindrance?

    Ardent has welcomed a new Government plan to speed up connections to the electricity network – but says some of the detail could end up hindering the process. The plan aims to cut down the delays for new transmission connections to help speed up the drive towards net zero and was published alongside the Autumn…

  • Action needed to accelerate deployment of electricity transmission infrastructure

    Action needed to accelerate deployment of electricity transmission infrastructure

    Ardent has welcomed a new report which aims to accelerate the deployment of electricity transmission infrastructure but believes that the government needs to act now to have any chance of meeting its already ambitious targets. Ardent has praised the independent report led by the Electricity Networks Commissioner Nick Winser which outlines 18 recommendations to government…

  • Key appointment of Director to growing Utilities team

    Key appointment of Director to growing Utilities team

    Ardent is delighted to announce the key appointment of Dan Harper who joins Ardent as a Director of Land Assembly in our Utilities team. Dan has moved from National Grid where he spent 12 years in various roles and was most recently the Complex Land Rights Manager, which saw him managing National Grid’s rights for…

  • Ardent Appointed to National Grid Framework

    Ardent Appointed to National Grid Framework

    Ardent is delighted to announce that we have been appointed onto a framework by National Grid for the first time in our history, as we look to support the transition to net zero. The five-year framework – with an option for a further three years – will see Ardent support National Grid’s transition to connect…