Main consultants save tens of millions for the third 12 months working

SCOTLAND’S largest water retailer has saved the nation’s public sector a file £2.85million over the course of the final 12 months, taking complete financial savings over three years to £6.4million.

Enterprise Stream has supported public sector organisations throughout the nation, together with NHS Scotland, Scottish Fireplace and Rescue, Police Scotland and the Scottish Authorities with leak detection, water effectivity and good monitoring companies as a part of a three-year contract.

On account of the retailer’s actions, the sector has additionally saved greater than 1.365 billion litres of water over the previous 12 months, equal to the quantity of 546 Olympic swimming swimming pools.

As one of many largest water retailers within the UK, Enterprise Stream was awarded the Scottish Authorities Public Sector Water and Waste Water Framework contract in early 2020. The contract, price round £200 million over three years, additionally consists of the Scottish Jail Service, universities and schools and native authorities. In 2022, Enterprise Stream was awarded a further one-year extension to the contract, which is at the moment underway.

This in flip has delivered power financial savings decreasing 574,778 kg of carbon – corresponding to eradicating 438 single passenger flights from Edinburgh to New York.

Jo Dow, Chief Govt of Enterprise Stream, mentioned: “We’re actually happy to have delivered vital financial savings for Scotland’s public sector once more this 12 months.

“Our expertise in working with the sector has allowed us to develop a set of companies and options which are serving to the sector to cut back prices, save time and generate environmental efficiencies.  We’re trying ahead to delivering additional financial savings within the 12 months forward”.

By way of consistently striving to enhance effectivity and repair, the 350-strong water retailer has elevated public sector financial savings year-on-year, from £1.4 million in 2021 to £2.2 million in 2022.

A spokesperson from the Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate utilities workforce, mentioned: “Enterprise Stream has continued to work with the general public sector to establish water effectivity alternatives.

“This pro-active method has lowered water consumption and offered monetary financial savings for public sector clients of the Water and Waste Water Framework. Lowering price and carbon influence is important for supporting Scotland’s inexperienced financial restoration and serving to us on our journey to a Web Zero Nation.”

The water retailer not too long ago introduced it had delivered £50,000 of funding to 6 public sector initiatives by way of its annual Public Sector Scotland (PSS) Water Effectivity Fund.

This 12 months’s profitable candidates of the Fund embrace a Heriot-Watt College initiative to put in a water chiller unit to chill, condense and recirculate used water; the set up of recent, digital low-flow faucets at Glasgow Caledonian College; and the becoming of waterless urinals and aerator faucet expertise at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon College.

Jo added: “The Water Effectivity Fund performs a key position in figuring out and funding progressive methods to minimise water waste and generate effectivity financial savings. Our funding in these tasks highlights our dedication to supporting Scotland’s public sector.”

Initially created in 2006 to supply greatest in school water companies to companies in Scotland, Enterprise Stream later acquired the non-household buyer base of Southern Water forward of the deliberate opening of the English retail water market.

That market change in 2017 paved the way in which for 1.2 million companies and public our bodies in England to have the ability to select their water provider. In 2019 Enterprise Stream acquired the shopper base of its rivals Yorkshire Water Enterprise Companies (YWBS) and Three-Sixty, doubling its market share.

Enterprise Stream has its HQ in Edinburgh, in addition to a presence in Worthing, West Sussex and in Bradford, West Yorkshire. It’s guided by its bold imaginative and prescient to make a optimistic distinction to its clients, its individuals, the surroundings and native communities.

Since launching that imaginative and prescient in 2019, the retailer has launched greater than 30 initiatives, together with a 20% water effectivity pledge to assist clients cut back water utilization. It has additionally invested in a tree-planting programme which has delivered a further 10,000 timber in Scotland.

The financial savings success comes after Enterprise Stream not too long ago halved its carbon emissions in only one 12 months, exceeding the retailer’s pledge to chop emissions by 20% over the identical interval.