Scottish Water has awarded a contract for electricity metering services worth an estimated £5 million – the water company was looking for a comprehensive end-to-end managed service for its HH, AMR and private meters.
The contract covers a range of services, including out of hours support and resource in installation, maintenance, operations, data collection and management of metering services.
The water company has approximately 4822 active sites connected to the distribution network for the provision of electricity.
Dataserve UK has won a place on the contract which will run for five years with a further five year extension option.
The Future Water Association’s annual Networks November event kicked off last week with a Year in Water Review – a recap on the past year and what it means for the sector going forward.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.