Milan’s water supplier joins Severn Trent’s Net Zero Hub team

Milan’s public water supplier Gruppo CAP has joined the international partnership comprising Severn Trent, Australia’s Melbourne Water and Denmark’s Aarhus Vand, which is working to decarbonise wastewater treatment.

The Net Zero Partnership was formed in 2022 and seeks to co-create technologies and innovations to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gasses from the wastewater treatment process. Ideas are tested at industrial scale at Severn Trent’s Strongford wastewater treatment works in Staffordshire. The target is for the site, dubbed a Net Zero Hub, to eradicate 34,000 tonnes of carbon per year.

Gruppo CAP manages the integrated water service of Milan, and is a key player in the development and innovation of Lombardy's water infrastructure. Described as “a true green utility”, its activities include CAP Evolution, a company operating in the areas of waste, wastewater and green energy; Neutalia, which manages the waste-to-energy plant in Busto Arsizio; and ZeroC, a bioplatform that seeks to transform existing waste-to-energy plant and water treatment plants.