- by Trevor Loveday
Three more pick up WSSLs as WICS grants Scots' first self supply licence
Ofwat has granted three more business retail water supply and sewerage licences (WSSLs) taking the total of licensed organisations to 19. Meanwhile The Water Industry Commission for Scotland has granted a water services self-supply licence and a sewerage services self- supply licence to Manchester-based Earl’s Gate Water – a subsidiary of chemicals producer CalaChem based in Grangemouth
The regulator has awarded WSSLs to The Water Retail Company, Water Choice South East’s Invicta Water subsidiary and Veolia Water Retail (UK).
Companies granted a WSSL
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
Outstanding applications
Cambrian Utilities
Advanced Demand Side Management
Peel Water
Everflow
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put water into an undertaker’s system, as well as the right to retail to customers, given its current licence will be withdrawn once the new regime kicks in in April.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”.