Project updates
All successful projects have committed to publishing milestone updates and project fundings where possible, to ensure transparency and encourage usage from across the industry. Updates will be published on an ad-hoc basis. In order to ensure you do not miss an update, please subscribe to our Market Improvement Fund mailing list.
Round 1
The debut round of the Market Improvement Fund consisted of seven successful bids, of which we awarded £700k. Find out about their progress below. Please note that the below information is subject to change.
Project | Applicant(s) | Sponsor(s) | Delivery Partner(s) | Status | Project page and outputs |
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Retailer Wholesaler Group (RWG) branding and design |
RWG | South West Water | Group of Seven |
Complete |
View |
Further develop options and RWG recommendations for increasing water demand reduction delivery on non-household properties and within the retail market | RWG / Thames Water | Thames Water | Economic Insight |
Complete |
View |
Project Looking Glass | OccuTrace Ltd | MOSL | OccuTrace Ltd |
Complete |
View |
Project Déjà Vu |
Precision Water | Everflow | Precision Water |
Complete |
View |
Project AMIDST (Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data strategic transfer) - a pathfinder to investigate feasibility and benefits of sharing AMI data wholesalers direct to CMOS | Anglian Water | MOSL | MOSL |
Complete |
View |
Pinpoint |
Wheatley Solutions | Bristol Water | Wheatley Solutions |
Complete |
View |
Leveraging existing underground rainwater assets for large-scale reductions in potable water use | Pennon Water Services | Pennon Water Services | Sustainable Draining Systems Ltd | In progress | View |
Round 2
The second round of the Market Improvement Fund awarded £890k to nine successful projects. We will publish updates and outputs as they become available. Please note that the below information is subject to change.
Project | Applicant(s) | Sponsor(s) | Delivery Partner(s) | Status | Project page and outputs |
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RWG Wholesale Tariff Simplification Development | RWG / Business Stream | Thames Water |
PA Consulting |
Complete |
View |
Business vacants research to inform optimum market outcomes |
Yorkshire Water and Business Stream | Yorkshire Water and Business Stream | Economic Insight |
Complete |
View |
NAPS Data Quality Cleanse |
IDenteq Ltd |
MOSL |
- |
Complete |
View |
Project No Flow (formerly Meter Condition Assessment) |
Wave Utilities | Wave Utilities |
Occutrace Ltd. |
Complete |
View |
Project "Discovery" | Anglian Water | Anglian Water |
Artesia Consulting |
Complete |
View |
Water use Benchmarking (Consumption Awareness and Benchmarking (LIDA 2)) |
Yorkshire Water | MOSL | Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) |
Complete |
View |
Water Connect (formerly DEV-Pool) - A new software service for Water Companies to fulfil service requests from Developers |
C&C Group Holdings | Portsmouth Water | Yorkshire Water | In progress |
View |
REDUCED – Raising Efforts to Drive User Consumption Efficaciously Down |
Isle Utilities | Wave Utilities |
- |
In progress |
View |
Automated Water Efficiency Audits | Wave Utilities | Wave Utilities |
- |
Closed |
- |
Round 3
This round awarded £870k to eight successful projects. Find out more about them below. Please note, information is subject to change.
Project | Applicant(s) | Sponsor(s) | Delivery Partner(s) | Status | Project page and outputs |
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Project Concordia |
Wave Utilities |
Wave Utilities |
InferSens |
In Progress |
View project page |
CATRID (Customer Access to Retailer ID) |
MOSL |
MOSL |
CGI |
In Progress |
View project page |
Revolutionising Water Efficiency in Non-Household Customers: The ISO 46001 Implementation Framework |
Water Research Centre (WRc) |
Waterscan |
Waterwise |
In Progress |
View project page |
Identifying Opportunities to Strengthen Engagement with non-Household Businesses through a water stewardship programme |
20FIFTY Partners |
Business Stream and Yorkshire Water |
20Fifty Partners |
In Progress |
View project page |
An independent trial of Wizso tablets |
Wizso Limited |
Southern Water |
Wizso Limited |
In Progress |
View project page |
Ready to Read |
Sagacity |
Clear Business Water |
Sagacity |
In Progress |
View project page |
Incentivising non-household water saving |
Waterwise |
Wave Utilities |
- |
In Progress |
View project page |
No one home |
Occutrace |
SES Business Water |
- |
In progress |
View project page |