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Leep Utilities secures 150,000th customer connection to its last-
mile water network Shortly follows Leep becoming the first UK water company to migrate all 37,000 of its live customers onto Octopus Energy’s Kraken platform
Leep Utilities (Leep), one of the UK's leading owners and operators of last- mile utility networks, has just signed up its 150,000th customer. The milestone was marked when the firm was appointed to own, maintain, and operate the clean and wastewater networks for Persimmon Homes’ Long Lands View development, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The new build scheme comprises over 160 one, two, three, four-bedroom homes.
This is the latest of many projects to be awarded to Leep by the major housebuilder after it was recently named as a partner on its New Appointments and Variations (NAV) adoption framework.
It follows Leep’s pioneering move, earlier this year, to become the first water company in the UK to migrate all 37,000 of its live customers onto Octopus Energy’s Kraken platform - enhancing their water efficiency and service levels, digitising its operations, and improving environmental performance.
These include residents of Persimmon Homes’ Summerhill Park development,
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in Maghull, Merseyside. Leep also owns, maintains, and operates the clean and wastewater networks for the new build scheme, which comprises over 430 two, three, four and five-bedroom homes, with all customers managing their bills, and enjoying the experience of the Kraken tech platform.
As the UK’s largest adoption-only NAV, Leep’s housebuilder and developer customers also benefit from transparency of pricing and the supply chain value, as well as greater efficiency in development activity.
Louise Manfredi, CEO of Leep Utilities, said: “As the UK’s largest adoption-only NAV, we’re becoming an increasingly popular partner for residential and commercial property companies across the nation. As we’re not limited by geography, we’re able to operate more flexibly and work with developers to ensure the best commercial value is realised for them. The fact that we provide asset valuations that are in no way linked to design and build components always proves to be particularly popular amongst them – placing us in prime position to cut
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through the opaque pricing bundles of others, whilst maximising our customers’ supply chain value yet further.
“As the pressures on the UK water supply continue to mount - in terms of the environment, the rising population, leakage, and the continuing cost of living crisis – our innovative approach and transparent pricing, combined with our Kraken migration, means that we’re better placed than ever to overcome developers’ challenges, whilst helping to ease these very serious issues in a landmark move towards digitising the water industry.
Dean Wigley, Group Head of Utility Assets & Engineering, at Persimmon Homes, said: “At Persimmon Homes, we prioritise engaging with progressive partners who can embrace our ambitions as a business. The success of our communities depends on our approach to utilities management. Leep Utilities is a recently appointed water framework partner, and we’re delighted to sign off on yet another contract and to meet this milestone with them. I look forward to building on the strength of our collaboration for the years to come.”
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