NI Water 2017 Capital Investment Variance Report

NI Water's 2017 Annual Information Return submission to the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation regarding financial measures for capital investment, specifically gross capital investment variance. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze capital investment variance for a water utility based on the reported financial measures.
• Benchmark NI Water's capital expenditure against regulatory submissions from other years or utilities.
• Study the structure and content of mandatory financial returns submitted to a utility regulator.

Strengths

• Data originates from a formal regulatory submission (Annual Information Return) to NIAUR.
• Dataset has a specific temporal scope focused on the 2017 reporting year.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 open license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

NI Water via OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Regulatory submission (Annual Information Return) to NIAUR.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:48.666580; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland