Investment manager NextEnergy Capital is to build a series of solar projects at Anglian Water sites to help the firm decarbonise its energy use

At least a kilometre and half of Grendon Brook was contaminated with sewage over two days in August 2016

The regulator said there is a ‘significant gap’ between its view of efficient costs and the revised proposals of Anglian Water, SES Water, Thames Water and Yorkshire Water

The firms say improved energy management can significantly reduce the water company’s carbon footprint

It says new solar panels integrated with a storage device will help it reduce its £77 million yearly energy bill

The company is donating the money to environmental charity Wildlife Trust in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Ofwat is proposing payments for water companies that have outperformed and penalties for those that have underperformed. It has launched a consultation, which will run until 20th November, on the proposals to adjust the price control to be applied from April next year. All water companies have committed to improve their performance for 2015/20 based […]

Anglian Water has agreed to donate £100,000 to an environmental charity after it polluted Houghton Brook in Cambridgeshire with sewage. According to the Environment Agency, around 150 fish died when sewage from Ilex Road Pumping Station in St Ives was pumped into the water system for 10 hours via the emergency overflow. The incident in […]

Anglian Water is saving around £2,000 a year on a borehole pump’s electricity costs following an energy assessment. The £7,000 project, which is expected to pay for itself within three and a half years, saw the installation of an ABB variable speed drive (VSD) on a submersible pump motor. The borehole is one of two operated by […]

The joint venture between Anglian Water and Northumbrian Water for non-household retail services has been approved. The two companies proposed to transfer their non-household retail water and sewerage businesses to form a 50/50 joint venture ‘Wave’. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation and cleared the merger, suggesting there is “sufficient competition remaining with respect […]