Glitrevannverket IKS

Name

Glitrevannverket IKS

Legal name

Glitrevannverket IKS

Website

https://glitre.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Water Supply

NAICS

Water, Sewage and Other Systems (2213), Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (221310)

SIC

Water Supply (4941)

akta.pro primary industry

Water & Wastewater Utility IoT (SCADA, Leak/Quality Monitoring) (EUADAPAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Monitoring & Control (Dosing Systems, Remote Monitoring, Sensors) (BPABAJAK), Water, Wastewater & Hydraulics Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAD), Water Treatment Plant Construction (Drinking Water) (IMAFAGAA)

Keywords

• Drinking water supply
• Municipal water utility
• Water treatment services
• Water distribution infrastructure
• Leakage control services

Headquarters

HQ city

Drammen

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Municipal water fees: Water and sewage fees charged to customers following selvkostprinsippet (cost-recovery principle). Fees cover actual costs of water delivery and are regulated municipal charges.
2. Hydropower production: Glitrevannverket produces clean power in some water conduits as a byproduct of water supply operations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Glitrevannverket IKS is an inter-municipal water utility that supplies drinking water to approximately 155,000 residents across the municipalities of Drammen, Lier, Asker, Frogn, and parts of Holmestrand. The company operates four water treatment plants (Landfall, Kleivdammen, Røysjø, Syllabus) sourcing from Lake Glitre, Lake Røysjø, and Holsfjorden, producing around 18.65 million m3 of water annually. Alongside wholesale water supply, it provides through the Godt Vann Drammensregionen cooperation program services such as leakage control, hydraulic modeling, GIS-VA support, process optimization, and watercourse technical (dam safety) services to six municipalities.

Product overview

Glitrevannverket IKS operates as a regional water utility providing drinking water supply services through a network of four water treatment plants (Landfall, Kleivdammen, Røysjø, and Sylling) sourcing from Lake Glitre, Lake Røysjø, and Holsfjorden. The company delivers approximately 18.65 million m³ of water annually to about 155,000 people across owner municipalities Drammen, Lier, and Asker, plus parts of Holmestrand and Frogn. The infrastructure includes approximately 130 km of own pipelines, seven dam facilities, reservoirs, pump stations, and 12 km of mountain tunnels. Through the Godt Vann Drammensregionen collaboration program, the company offers supplementary services including leakage control, hydraulic modeling, GIS-VA services, and watercourse technical expertise (VTA) to six municipalities. The integrated network allows water supply redirection between facilities during maintenance or emergencies, with mutual backup agreements with Asker og Bærum vannverk.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Godt Vann Drammensregionen (GVD): Inter-municipal water and sewage cooperation program between six municipalities (Modum, Øvre Eiker, Drammen, Lier, Holmestrand, Asker) and Glitrevannverket IKS, focusing on leakage control, hydraulic modeling, VA-GIS, and watercourse technical services.

Products and services

• Drinking Water Supply (Drikkevannforsyning) Core wholesale water supply service that delivers approximately 18.65 million m3 of drinking water annually to about 155,000 residents across the municipalities of Drammen, Lier, Asker, Frogn, and parts of Holmestrand, sourced from four water treatment plants drawing on Lake Glitre, Lake Røysjø, and Holsfjorden.
• Godt Vann Drammensregionen (GVD) Inter-municipal Cooperation Program Host-managed inter-municipal cooperation program covering six municipalities (Modum, Øvre Eiker, Drammen, Lier, Holmestrand, Asker) and Glitrevannverket, providing shared water and wastewater services including leakage control, hydraulic modeling, GIS-VA, and watercourse technical (VTA) services.
• Leakage Control and Water Loss Reduction Service delivered through the Godt Vann Drammensregionen cooperation to monitor and reduce water losses in municipal distribution networks, using zone monitoring, hydraulic modeling, and analysis across more than 100 consumption and pressure zones.
• Hydraulic Modeling and Network Simulation Modeling and simulation services using MIKE+/EPANET or similar tools to optimize water distribution network performance and plan infrastructure investments, available to Godt Vann cooperation municipalities.
• Process Optimization for Water Treatment Process optimization services for water treatment facilities, including development and improvement of process plants and operational routines, P&ID drawings, flow diagrams, and technical sketches, delivered to partner municipalities and the company's own plants.
• Watercourse Technical Services (VTA - Dam Safety) Watercourse technical (VTA) services providing dam safety work and supervision across 134 dams under the Godt Vann cooperation, including 88 class 1 or higher dams, managed by Glitrevannverket on behalf of partner municipalities.
• Water Network Data Collection, Treatment, and Analysis (Fagansvarlig analyse og soneovervåkning) Service capability for data collection, treatment, and analysis from the network of over 350 sensors and 100+ pressure/consumption zones, supporting leakage control, water quality monitoring, and operational decisions across the drinking water supply system.

Quantifiable outcome

• Water consumption 13.8% lower in 2019 than 2004 despite population growth in region
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Drammen kommuneminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Cooperation on reserve water supply for Konnerud area. Led to construction of 4km pipeline from Åsen to Konnerud. Also laying wastewater connections for scattered buildings.
• Godt Vann municipalities (Vassdragsteknisk samarbeid)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007Cooperation since 2007 between Glitrevannverket and 5 municipalities (Drammen, Asker, Lier, Holmestrand, Øvre Eiker) plus Blindevannverket for joint watercourse technical responsibility (VTA). Total of 134 dams under the cooperation, of which 88 are class 1 or above.
• Asker og Bærum vannverk (Reservevann Glitre-Asker - RGA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2006Mutual reserve water connection established in 2006. Provides backup water supply enabling maintenance work on treatment plants. Water quality is maintained by drawing from alternative treatment plant. The two systems serve as mutual reserve supply for each other.
• Godt Vann Drammensregionen (GVD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIntermunicipal water and sewage cooperation program between 6 municipalities (Modum, Øvre Eiker, Drammen, Lier, Holmestrand, Asker) and Glitrevannverket. Glitrevannverket serves as host/secretariat. Activities include leakage control, modeling, VA-GIS, and watercourse technical services. Staff are formally employed by Glitrevannverket but work primarily for the cooperating municipalities.
• Lierelven jordvanning A/LminorOthersCooperation regarding Holsfjordenoverføringen (Holsfjorden transfer) allowing transfer of water from Holsfjorden to Lierelva when needed. Glitrevannverket administers water release and measurement on behalf of the cooperation.
• Norsk VannminorOthersNational interest organization for the water sector representing 320 municipalities with nearly 96% of Norway's population. Awards Bærekraftprisen which was won by Godt Vann Drammensregionen in 2020.
• Drammen sportsfiskere (Drammen Sports Fishermen)minorOthersCooperation on fish stock management in Glitre. Sports fishermen work on habitat improvements in spawning streams. Glitrevannverket stocks Glitre with trout from local brood stock.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves1 record

Emerging players

• Hias IKS: Inter-municipal water and wastewater company in the Hedmark/Oppland region, structured as an IKS like Glitrevannverket. Comparable IKS governance and selvkost economics, though typically smaller in scale and serving a less densely populated area — useful benchmark for what an adjacent IKS looks like operationally.

Regional players

• Trondheim kommune — Vann og avløp: Municipal water and wastewater utility serving Trondheim and surrounding areas. Comparable regional scale of treatment and distribution, similar regulatory environment (selvkost, Drikkevannsforskriften), but operated by a single municipality rather than an IKS — a useful reference for what consolidation around a single large municipality looks like in Norway.
• Aarhus Vand: Municipal water utility serving Aarhus, Denmark. Comparable regional utility in the Nordic surface-water treatment and distribution model, with similar focus on water quality, leakage control, and long-term infrastructure investment, but operating under a different national regulatory regime.
• Stockholm Vatten och Avfall: Municipal water and waste utility for the Stockholm region. Regional peer with similar surface-water sourcing, treatment plant network, and emphasis on leakage reduction and water quality monitoring, but operating in a different national regulatory and ownership framework.

Direct peers

• IVAR IKS: Inter-municipal water and wastewater utility owned by multiple municipalities in the Stavanger/North Rogaland region. Direct peer of Glitrevannverket: same Norwegian IKS ownership structure, comparable scale of regional water production and treatment operations, and a similar focus on leakage control and inter-municipal cooperation.
• Asker og Bærum vannverk (ABV): Norwegian inter-municipal water utility supplying drinking water to Asker and Bærum municipalities. Direct peer of Glitrevannverket — same IKS-style model, similar scale of regional wholesale supply, and explicitly connected via a 2006 mutual reserve water agreement (RGA) with Glitrevannverket.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia Norge: Norwegian operations of global water and environmental services group Veolia. Broad incumbent peer that competes for outsourced municipal water/wastewater operations contracts in Norway, providing a benchmark for how a private operator competes against the IKS model that Glitrevannverket operates under.
• Bergen Vann (Vann- og avløpsseksjonen): Water and wastewater function of Bergen municipality, one of Norway's largest municipal water utilities. Broad incumbent peer with similar surface-water sourcing, treatment, and distribution model, but serving a single large municipality rather than an inter-municipal IKS structure.
• Oslo Vann- og avløpsetaten (VAV): Oslo municipality's water and wastewater utility — by far Norway's largest, serving the capital region. Broad incumbent peer: operates under the same selvkost and Drikkevannsforskriften regime, with overlapping capabilities (treatment, distribution, dam safety), but at substantially greater scale and a purely municipal (non-IKS) ownership model.

Others

• Powel AS: Norwegian software and technology provider for the utility sector, including water (SCADA, hydraulic modeling, GIS-VA). Adjacent ecosystem peer: Glitrevannverket uses MIKE+/EPANET and Siemens PLC/SCADA, and Powel is a plausible local supplier of the digital stack that the utility depends on for its 350+ sensor monitoring and zone-based leakage control.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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