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In its turnaround plan published in October, Thames Water, which is saddled with £14 billion ($17.7 million) in debt, proposed to jack up the average annual customer bill by 40% by 2030.
The government is scrambling to put together a plan to rescue Thames Water over increasing fears the company is set to go bust.. The utility giant is struggling under a £14 billion debt pile it ...
Thames Water, which has a £14 billion ($17.9 billion) debt pile, anticipates that an extra £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) of equity funding will be needed in the five years to 2030 to help it ...
The company has been criticised for paying substantial dividends to shareholders while simultaneously taking out loans, accumulating £14 billion in debts. In June 2023, Thames Water was reported to be close to financial collapse. In April 2024, the UK Government was reported to be considering plans to renationalise the company.
Chris Weston. Christopher Phillip Anthony Weston (born 5 January 1964) [1] is a British businessman. In January 2024 he became chief executive of Thames Water. [2] He is the former chief executive of Aggreko, a FTSE 250 Index company, and a former managing director of British Gas, one of the Big Six energy suppliers in the United Kingdom.
The newly created, privately owned, water and sewerage companies (WSCs) paid £7.6 billion for the regional water authorities. At the same time, the government assumed responsibility for the sector's total debts amounting to £5 billion and granted the WSCs a further £1.5 billion—a so-called "green dowry"—of public funds. [17]
Thames Water has had its credit rating downgraded to “junk” status by influential ratings agency Moody’s. ... which is creaking under a debt pile of more than £15 billion, said on Tuesday ...
In 1989 the Thames Water Authority was partly privatised, under the provisions of the Water Act 1989 [3] with the water and sewage responsibilities transferring to the newly established publicly quoted company of Thames Water, and the regulatory, land drainage and navigation responsibilities transferring to the newly created National Rivers Authority which later became the Environment Agency.