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Nando's seeks new water supplier for almost 400 outlets

Nando’s seeks water supplier for 400 restaurants

Restaurant chain Nando's will tender for a water supplier in early 2018. "Having firmly embedded waste reduction principles and procurement processes in our business, we...

National Grid gas chief joins former Eon boss at Affinity Water

National Grid director of gas transmission, Pauline Walsh, will be the new chief executive officer of Affinity Water, taking over from Simon Cocks at...

Bristol Water poaches Bristol Energy’s finance chief

Bristol Water has hired Laura Flowerdew as its next chief financial officer. Flowerdew, currently finance director at Bristol Energy, will replace Mick Axtell, whose resignation...

TPI Open Energy Market enters water market touting big savings

Third party intermediary Open Energy Market has launched a platform to help firms switch water suppliers - and claims businesses can save up to...

Yü Energy enters water market

Business gas and electricity supplier, Yü Energy, has launched a water service for SMEs. The firm hopes to bundle energy and water procurement to business...

Tender: Water retailer to serve 300 restaurants

Casual Dining Group seeks a retailer for both water and wastewater across some 300 UK restaurants. A competitive tender process goes live this month. The independent...

Nottingham Council to self-supply water, hand responsibility to energy team

Nottingham City Council will start supplying water to its own estate next month - with responsibility handed to its energy services team. Having acquired a...

Prisons with oil-based heating are a key target for green energy projects, says MoJ

The Ministry of Justice is "seeking expert advice" on how it can achieve a 'net zero' target for its property portfolio - mainly prisons...

UK water companies unite on Race to Zero

UK water companies have joined forces as part of the international Race to Zero campaign, pledging to deliver a net zero water supply for...

SES Water rolls out water saving visits in schools, repairing hundreds of hidden leaks...

In the past year SES Water has repaired 360 leaks in 89 schools across its supply area, helping to save nearly 320,000 litres of...

Thames twizzles hundred million turkeys on 2021’s biogas

Thames Water claims to have generated enough biogas from sewage this year to roast 112 million Christmas turkeys. The UK’s largest water company created almost 140 million...

Octopus’ Kraken awakes, stretches beyond energy into water & broadband

Energy transaction platform Kraken is venturing beyond administering energy accounts, reaching today into other utilities such as telecoms, water & broadband. Described as ‘cloud-native’, Kraken...

Business Stream awarded new £9m contract with soft drinks giant Britvic

Business Stream, one of the UK’s largest water retailers, has signed a new contract worth over £9 million with leading British soft drinks manufacturer...

Big thanks, colossal tanks: Jacopa gives Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water standard special treatment

In this sponsored post, wastewater expert Jacopa details the completion of a £2.5m design and installation contract for a dissolved air flotation (DAF) solution...

Power generation needs to consider water shortages

Experts at Newcastle University are warning the Government that its current thinking on future energy generation risks locking the UK into a situation where...

Entries now open for the Energy Awards 2014

The Energy Awards are back for 2014 and bigger than ever. This year we have revamped the 15 categories and moved to a bigger,...

England’s water market to open to competition

More than a million English businesses will be able to choose their water supplier for the first time after new legislation was passed to...

Water footprint ISO standard

ISO has published a standard for measuring your water footprint. ISO 14046, Environmental management – Water footprint – Principles, requirements and guidelines, will allow...

Flowmeter with SAW technology is cutting edge

Until now flowmeters have come in a wide variety of designs with individual strengths and weaknesses that define their suitability for different applications. This...

Intelligent district heating grid

Kamstrup has won the final round of tenders for 28,000 meters in Aarhus Municipality's district heating project. With the intelligent reading system, Aarhus Municipality...