We are proud to provide a sustainable, affordable, clean and safe water supply and to manage and treat the waste water returned to us in a way that protects the environment.
Energy is essential to Northumbrian Water’s business, from treatment of water and wastewater to heating, lighting and transport, addressing energy consumption is one of the key ways we can reduce our impacts.
The water industry is a major user of energy in its treatment processes and where we can’t use gravity to move water around the network. Our policy is to reduce emissions (direct and indirect) and costs attributed to our energy usage and to educate our customers and employees to the energy implications of water.
Our emissions are primarily generated from two sources, the direct and indirect emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the use of fossil fuels and secondly from emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from wastewater treatment and sludge disposal processes.