NI Water's Annual Information Return: Financial Measures for Capital Investment

NI Water's Annual Information Return submission to the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation (NIAUR) regarding financial measures for capital investment and associated operational expenditure. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08. It likely contains financial metrics related to how capital expenditure projects generate additional operational costs.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between capital investment and operational expenditure in a regulated utility based on the described financial measures.
• Benchmark financial performance metrics for water utilities based on the reported annual information return.
• Model long-term cost implications of infrastructure projects based on the described 'additional opex from capex' concept.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the regulated utility's official annual submission to the authority NIAUR.
• The dataset has a specific update timestamp: 2026-07-08 13:30:44.679856.
• It is published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description is brief, lacking details on specific financial metrics or time periods covered.

Provenance

Source

NI Water (Northern Ireland Water) via OpenDataNI.

Collection Method

Likely an official regulatory submission (Annual Information Return) to NIAUR.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:44.679856; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.