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Affinity Water is a water only company (WOC). Please refer to the wholesale charges documents for Thames Water, Anglian Water or Southern Water for information regarding sewerage, drainage and trade effluent charges and services they provide.
In May 2018, after consultation, Ofwat published guidance1 on bulk charges for NAVs. Accordingly, we revised our approach to bulk charges for charges effective from 1st April 2019 to meet those requirements.
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The purpose of publication is to provide a transparent indication of primary wholesale charges to existing and prospective retailers to support effective markets. The Schedules of Indicative Primary Wholesale Charges for 2025/26 are set out in the following pages of this document.
Please refer to the wholesale charges documents for Thames Water, Anglian Water or Southern Water for information regarding sewerage, drainage and trade effluent charges and services they provide.
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Our primary wholesale charges to retailers operating in the competitive market typically comprise a fixed charge per customer (that varies according to meter size) and volumetric charges that vary according to consumption.
Table 1 below shows the prior years and current year 2024/25 wholesale fixed charges, in £/year, which increase with meter size. Residential properties typically have 12/15mm meters, whilst larger business customers that may be included in a NAV appointment (e.g. schools) may have larger sized meters.
The purpose of publication is to provide a transparent indication of primary wholesale charges to existing and prospective retailers to support effective markets. The Schedules of Indicative Primary Wholesale Charges for 2024/25 are set out in the following pages of this document.
Projecting primary wholesale charges for 2023/24 is more difficult this year as we have observed a significant increase in inflation. It is uncertain whether inflation will continue to rise, although it is already the main driver behind the rise in tariffs.
Our primary wholesale charges to retailers operating in the competitive market typically comprise a fixed charge per customer (that varies according to meter size) and volumetric charges that vary according to consumption.
Table 1 below shows the prior years and current year 2023/24 wholesale fixed charges, in £/year, which increase with meter size. Residential properties typically have 12/15mm meters, whilst larger business customers that may be included in a NAV appointment (e.g. schools) may have larger sized meters.
Primary wholesale charges are the charges we make for providing wholesale water supplies to retailers operating in the competitive market, but wholesale charges also form a significant component of the tariffs we charge to household customers.
Table 1 below shows the prior year, 2021/22 and current year 2022/23 wholesale fixed charges, in £/year, which increase with meter size. Residential properties, which form Larger business customers that may be included in a NAV appointment (e.g. schools) may have larger sized meters.
Wholesale Charges must be published at least eleven weeks before the start of the period for which the charges will be imposed. Our Wholesale Charges and Wholesale Tariff Document 2020/21 are published on our website on 14 January 2020.
(3) Our Wholesale charges schedule sets out our Wholesale Charges including Primary Charges and Non-Primary Charges for the supply of Water Services to Water Retailers for the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.
To facilitate the bulk supply, we construct a connection from our existing network to the agreed point(s) of connection with the NAV’s on-site infrastructure. Where we provide bulk supplies, we make charges for those services, as part of bulk supply agreements in place between ourselves and NAVs.
Each water undertaker must publish the Wholesale Charges payable by a water supply licensee for the supply of water to Eligible Premises that are connected to the undertaker’s supply system.
Accordingly, we revised our approach to bulk charges for charges effective from 1st April 2019 to meet those requirements. We made minor refinements to our approach for charges effective from 1st April 2020, for example updating the return on capital for the PR19 outcome.