This month Bazalgette Finance plc has issued £175 million of index-linked green bonds – to design, build, commission, and maintain the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) in London.
Ofwat has today launched a consultation on new measures for the 2019 price review which will see customers share the financial gains made by water companies with high levels of debt.
Cyber attacks are the now the biggest threat to business in the eyes of investors, mirroring growing global concern from business leaders, according to a new study by PwC.
Moody’s ratings agency is warning in a report published today that pressure from Ofwat, including possible licence changes, could force highly leveraged companies to seek fresh equity ahead of what the ratings agency expects to be a tough price review in 2019.
Ofwat’s chairman, Jonson Cox, has today called on the water sector to “hit refresh and offer a renewed commitment to customers”.
Ahead of next week's World Water-Tech Innovation Summit in London, Guy Ledger, Client Director at Atkins provides the inside track on direct procurement ahead of the session he will chair: Getting Deals Done with Innovative Procurement Models.
OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc. has today announced the purchase of an additional 4% interest in Kemble Water Holdings Ltd, the ultimate holding company of Thames Water Utilities Ltd.
A new report from the National Audit Office on the Private Finance Initiative says that future annual charges for operational PFI contracts which continue until the 2040s amount to £199 billion, even if no new deals are entered into,
Ratings agency Moody’s has changed its outlook for the UK water sector from stable to negative for the first time since first published in 2004.
Moody’s has either maintained negative outlooks for five UK-based regulated water utilities and changed one high-yield holding company - the ratings agency’s actions relate to the companies it considers most exposed to the likely cut in allowed returns from 2020.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.