by Trevor Loveday
Gas supply company subsidary, Regent Water, has been granted a water and sewerage supply licence taking the total number of licenced retailers to 16.
They are:
Affinity for Business
Anglian Water Business
Castle Water
Clear Business Water;
Kelda Retail (Three Sixty)
Northumbrian Water Business (Wave)
Severn Trent and United Utilities,(Water Plus)
South Staffs Water Business
SES Business Water
Water 2 Business
Business Stream
Cobalt Water
Pennon Water Services
Regent Water
Thames Water Commercial Services was granted a licence and has since exited the market
Waterscan
South East Water Choice has been granted a sewerage licence
Eight applications are outstanding. They are:
Water Choice South East (through its Invicta Water subsidiary)
The Water Retail Company;
Cambrian Utilities
Advanced Demand Side Management
Peel Water
Everflow
Veolia
Anglian Water Business has applied to Ofwat to add wholesale and supplementary authorisations to the retail authorisations it already holds within its Water Supply and Sewerage Licence. The company explained it is seeking to replicate the right it already holds under its Combined Water Supply Licence to put water into an undertaker’s system, as well as the right to retail to customers, given its current licence will be withdrawn once the new regime kicks in in April. Anglian Water Business commented it had “already applied and received its retail authorisation and we are applying for the wholesale authorisation to maintain the equivalent of the licence we hold today”.