FAQs

The British Electricity Utility Market Report is a comprehensive electricity market analysis of the UK electrical utility market, with the latest data available in 2006, valuable for utilities and energy suppliers, manufacturers supplying equipment and services to the utility sector and all who are concerned with the British electricity utility market.

The UK faces an energy crisis of great magnitude in the years to come. The gravity of the potential danger should not be underestimated. Key questions need to be asked. What is going to produce base load power, coal or nuclear power? How secure is gas? Wind power falls short of claims and serious questions have been raised. Aging transmission and distribution assets need replacement and large increases in non-load related capex are needed – how, where and when?

Critical issues need to be tackled. Britain has failed in its ambition to be an environmental leader. It has missed its targets and emissions have increased 15% under the present government. A new market has emerged. With gas prices escalating, coal made a comeback in 2005 delivering 41% of generation in the winter of 2005-2006. A new group of energy companies has emerged, involved in different segements of the power market, generation, distribution and supply. Two survivors of the 14 autonomous RECs remain. Scottish Power and Southern Energy, E.ON, RWE and EDF are the dominant foreign owners in the electricity sector. Consolidation of the electricity market continues with many mergers and acquisitions, with increasing exchange of customers between gas and electricity markets. British Gas is now the largest supplier of electricity and gas in Britain. Losses in gas customers due to strong competition have been compensated by gains in the electricity market. Britain now has uniform power trading arrangements applying to England, Wales and Scotland.

Our electricity market analysis analyses the electricity sector and provides the essential electricity market information for any company involved in this market.

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