HELPING YOU MEET YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE REGULATOR
The regulator is increasingly critical of the robustness of data used by water companies to calculate supply pipe leakage. Companies have a statutory obligation to supply reliable and accurate information and failure to do so is a criminal offence. Despite this, accurate information on supply and demand, including actual measurements of individual supply pipe leakage and per capita consumption (PCC), is not always available.
Many water companies already employ complex strategies including the assessment of night time water use in specific districts to derive PCC and assess leakage. However, Ofwat is now challenging data derived in this way and may reject submissions from companies with inconsistent or unsupported information.
Now for the first time an invaluable addition to existing strategies is available to enable water companies to support the validity of their nightline figures. The core of this is the Severn Trent Services (STS) SmartMeter, which with its integral supply pipe leakage detection capability, provides detailed, robust and accurate data which compliments existing strategies and can be used as a stand alone tool or scaled up to support a company's own models.
Click on Technical Data for details of this new package from SmartMeter.
