We connect energy, water and infrastructure so ideas flow across boundaries. This cuts duplication, reduces costs and accelerates whole-system change.
Energy, water and other infrastructure sectors are regulated separately. They were never set up to talk to each other, and it costs consumers money.
Get the sectors working together, cut the duplication, and do the innovation that only happens when they do.
We take proven innovations from where they're mature and land them where they're needed, bringing experienced partners from the more mature sector to move faster with less risk.
We convene the people who can unblock cross-sector work, and we publish what comes out of it.
We work with government and industry bodies on shared data, aligned governance and joined-up consumer engagement.
Every job we take has to pass one test: does it move something across a sector boundary? We work under Ofgem, Ofwat and other infrastructure sector rules. But the value is in what we create between them.
We find ideas that work in one sector and get them adopted in another. We also build the propositions that only make sense across sectors. Then we develop the concept, assemble the consortium and write the bid.
We are not a broker. We find where a solution has already been proven under one regulator, then build the case and the consortium to deploy it under another.
Shared data, co-ordinated works, cross-vector flexibility. Biggest consumer benefit, and nobody else is set up to bid for them.
Before we put a concept forward we make sure it hasn't been done elsewhere. Working across sectors means we can tell.
£500m Ofgem SIF. £300m+ NIA. £740m+ across the Ofwat funds. We match the concept to the right pot, or to more than one.
We define bankable opportunities, build a team set up to succeed, and own and deliver work packages — identifying, structuring and sourcing capital across project stages.
We identify and frame bankable opportunities — defining the problem, the market, the regulatory environment, and the team needed to succeed.
We structure capital across project stages — from early development funding through to construction and operational financing.
We own and deliver work packages, managing stakeholders, navigating regulations, gathering market insights and developing economic models throughout.
Expert guidance on the GB transmission and distribution connection queue — strategy, sequencing and engagement with network operators to avoid delays and costs.
We advise government, local authorities, regulators and industry bodies on questions that sit between sectors: what one regime can learn from another, and what is actually blocking them from working together.
Departments, regulators and industry bodies can remove the barriers. We bring them evidence from working across both regimes, not one.
Each has solved problems the other still faces. We translate the mechanisms and precedents between them.
Local authorities are where energy and water physically collide. We help them plan and procure as one system, not four programmes.
Single-sector models miss benefits that land outside the sponsoring sector. Ours don't.
Ofgem and Ofwat set their innovation challenges separately. Put them side by side and you see the same problems with the same deadlines, being solved twice. The first tab is where we focus.
Each pairing below is work being commissioned twice and paid for from two separate bills. These are the propositions we build.
Both are moving from time-based to condition-based maintenance. Both are funding sensor networks, digital twins and failure prediction over the same ground. One shared layer could serve both.
Energy needs to build 50% faster and 20% cheaper. Water needs to halve leakage. Both dig the same streets, often months apart. Joint planning and shared works is the biggest saving available.
Water is a major industrial electricity user, and pumping and treatment can be shifted in time. Water's carbon target and energy's need for local flexibility are the same problem from two sides.
A big industrial site needs power and water, and needs both to arrive together. Ofgem's own challenge asks for cross-vector solutions including water and wastewater. The mandate is already there.
Both sectors are building demand-management relationships with the same households, running separate vulnerability registers and separate campaigns. People live in one home, not two utilities.
These are the five we're working on now. If you're building something that crosses a boundary, or you think you're paying for work someone else has already done, get in touch.
Ofgem's Strategic Innovation Fund — £500m for 2026–2031 — has shifted decisively toward deployment over learning: ideas must map to a defined challenge and a credible route to business-as-usual. We help innovators do exactly that.
The Ofwat innovation landscape spans over £740m across three funds, with the same shift toward deployment at scale. We've secured £20m+ for clients across 25+ Ofwat bids — and we map your innovation to the right challenge and stream.
Joining sectors up needs people who have worked in more than one. Our team and associates span energy, water and related industries. That's how we spot when a problem has already been solved somewhere else.
Technical, commercial, economic, regulatory and bid-writing skills in one accountable team. Every job starts and ends here.
More than 20 expert associates across energy, water and related fields. Specialist depth when you need it, without big-firm overhead.
Universities including Birmingham, UCL and Warwick. Early-stage research we can connect to live network problems.
We track who is working on network monitoring, flexibility and DER, storage, hydrogen, asset health, and data and AI. We know who is credible.
We take early ideas and shape them into things networks can run.
We shape concepts around Ofgem and Ofwat expectations from the start, not afterwards.
We work with every GB energy network and twelve water companies. Most are looking for innovation partners.
We bring in the technical, academic and commercial partners a bid needs to win.
We know the live problems, not just the published ones. That gives your idea a head start.
We map the path from where your research is now to a funded network trial, then walk it with you.
We've taken ideas from concept to deployment across multiple GB utilities. This is the process.
We help innovators identify research and technology that GB utilities can use.
We run sessions between utilities and innovators to define early-stage solutions to real problems.
We structure the idea into something a utility can buy and scale, and that meets regulatory priorities.
We write the funding application at each stage of the project, at no cost to the innovator.
We don't disappear once the money lands. We stay on through deployment and handle the regulatory, commercial and reporting work.
Cross-sector work only lands if each sector trusts you first. We work with every GB energy network and twelve water companies. That's why they listen when we ask them to work together.
If you're working on something that crosses sector boundaries, or you need advice on innovation, infrastructure or strategy, we'd like to hear from you.