Pete Vale

Pete is the Carbon and Circular Economy Architect in Severn Trent’s Innovation Team. He has a degree in Environmental Science from the University of Sheffield and a master’s degree in water and wastewater engineering from Cranfield University.

Pete has worked in R&D and innovation in the water industry for 25 years and has played a key role in developing and implementing Severn Trent’s wastewater treatment strategy.  He regularly works with a wide range of academic partners to translate low TRL concepts into high TRL industrial reality. Over the past decade he has worked on nutrient removal and recovery processes, removal of emerging contaminants and low energy processes some of which have now been implemented at full scale.  His current area of focus is on technologies that will deliver low carbon, low energy, resource recovery treatment processes that will help Severn Trent deliver on its commitment to be net zero carbon emitters by 2030.  He was the architect of Severn Trent’s ‘Net Zero Hub’ a groundbreaking project utilising novel technologies to monitor and mitigate process emissions from a large urban wastewater treatment plant.