Village Hotel, a growing hotel chain which currently has 30 hotels across the UK, has applied to Ofwat for self-supply water and sewerage licences.
Each of Village Hotel’s sites have a large indoor pool and modern gym with state-of-the-art equipment – the firm describes water as “a crucial element of the day to day running of its hotels, restaurants and gyms.”
The company currently have AMR devices on the majority of its hotels to help monitor the usage at each site which helps flag any unusual usage and potential leakage.
Village Hotel expanded its sustainability plan for 2019 to include water reducing processes. It is aiming to pass down this attitude through to staff and will start to communicate with hotel guests about how to be more aware of environmental impact during their stays.
With plans to open more hotels in the next few years, it is also implementing energy efficient designs in all new build hotels, describing this as one of the drivers for applying for a Self-Supply Licence. Currently the firm “feels like it has little control over water” and the WSSL would ensure it is focusing more on becoming more water efficient at its sites.
According to Village Hotel, self-supply will provide an opportunity to build on the works already undertaken and develop its partnership with Waterscan whilst driving cost and consumption control, particularly through the management of AMR across its estate. The hotel chain believes that having a self-supply licence will give it a chance to take more control over its own water use and effluent discharge, dealing directly with the wholesalers and to build on the success of its water programs.
Village Hotel have entered a partnership agreement with Waterscan to take on the role and responsibilities for the retail functions including meter reading, CMOS transactions, wholesaler management and finding further water efficiency savings.
As a self-supply licensee, Village Hotel will:
- Pay wholesale prices – the price that retailers pay to the water companies
- Not pay retail margin added by suppliers in the open water market
- Become a market participant including membership of MOSL with voting rights and the ability to directly influence the market
- Be able to supply water services to multiple sites
Deadline to make representations or objections to Ofwat is 23 January 2020 – click here to access the consultation document.
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