H2O POWER LTD

🌳Matureactive
08996002 · ltd · incorporated 2014-04-14
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 9.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£246
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 35140SIC 35140
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 9.7y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
30 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £246
Net assets shrinking
Down £299 YoY
Cash YoY
-9%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£4k
↓ 8.6% YoY
Net Worth
£246
↓ 55% YoY
Current Assets
£28k
↓ 13% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£6k£13k£19k£25k£32kDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£150.8k£154.9k
Current assets£27.5k£31.7k
Cash£4.1k£4.5k
Debtors£23.4k£27.2k
Net assets£246£545

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-04-21
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  7. 2020-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-11-26
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    mortgage-charge-part-both-with-charge-number
    mortgage · MR05
  9. 2019-09-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-07-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-05-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-11-14
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  14. 2016-11-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Ppf Banka A.S. and Its Successors in Title, Permitted Assigns and Permitted Transferees
  15. 2016-10-06
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  16. 2016-09-13
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  17. 2014-12-01
    ➕
    TOSNAR, Jan, Mr. appointed
    director
  18. 2014-04-14
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As H2O POWER LTD
  19. 2014-04-14
    ➕
    CAMPBELL-LENDRUM, Ewan appointed
    director

Owner dependency

71/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 12 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

59/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 years.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Renfin H2o S.R.O
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares
majority
🏛️
Cree Hydro Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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H2O POWER LTD
This company · 08996002

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Renfin H2o S.R.O
Corporate entity
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting06/04/2016
Cree Hydro Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2014-04-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

Wellington House 273-275 High Street
London Colney
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL2 1HA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-28
Last: 2026-04-14

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

CAMPBELL-LENDRUM, Ewan→
director · ~59y · appointed 2014-04-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TOSNAR, Jan, Mr.→
director · ~53y · appointed 2014-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Ppf Banka A.S. and Its Successors in Title, Permitted Assigns and Permitted Transferees
A registered charge—04/11/2016—
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Recent filings (30 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2021-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-21
mortgage-charge-part-both-with-charge-number
mortgage · MR05
2020-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-20