Comment 'It seems ironic that the industry's regulator has added to the problem'

摘要

With the arrival of AMP6 there was optimism that the transition from Amps would be a lot smoother. After all, water companies had put early start programmes in place, and Ofwat had allowed hundreds of millions of pounds of investment to be brought forward. Come April 1, 2015 everyone could hit the ground running. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for some it has as the industry's supply chain complain that project delays by some water companies has resulted in a sluggish start to AMP6 (see front page and P7). It would seem that Ofwat has thrown a spanner in the works by not only calling on the water companies to focus on customers and introduce a totex approach to capital investment, but adding Outcome Delivery Incentives into the mix.