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Multi Utility Deregulation Report Ed 4 2008
ABS Energy Research, June 2008, Pages: 1,022
This report contains up-dated information on deregulation and privatisation of the energy and water industries, each sector up-dated to 2008. Progress continues in deregulating most markets around the world but it is a mixed picture, with some successes but generally the situation in 2008 is less satisfactory than initially hoped for. In July 2007, the final stage of market opening according to the EU Directive was reached. Almost all of the original EU 15 countries opened their markets 100% and most of the new entrants. As a region, only the EU is moving systematically in a co-ordinated manner, while other markets are developing new structures on an individual country basis.
The EU Commission has been monitoring progress and in February 2006 published a critical report drawing attention to a number of aspects in which progress towards liberalisation is considered unsatisfactory and new rules are being implemented. It may be many years before the optimum situation is reached. This comes at a time when the European energy sector is at a crossroads, with ever increasing demand and some uncertainties about supply, especially from Russia. The Multi-Utility Deregulation Report outlines the progress of market deregulation and privatisation in every continent. It outlines the situation of each of the countries and provides an extensive and detailed overview of the global energy and water markets is included.
A development in the global market in recent years has seen the emergence of a second generation of global investors, regional companies looking outside their immediate sphere of influence. The first generation of global investors were European and American companies, notably E.ON, RWE, Suez, Vivendi, Endesa, Iberdrola, EDF, Enel, Tracetebel and other large European companies. The American investors included TXU, AES, PSEG, AEP, CMS, Duke, Mirant and others. Many of the American companies have withdrawn or reduced their overseas investment. Among the new regional groupings are several large Asian companies, which are now looking outside their national markets. There has also been a trend for utilities to withdraw from non-core business; for example, RWE is in the process of divesting its water interests, which included Thames Water, now the third largest global water company, to concentrate on its energy business. There has also been an increasing number of reversals of privatisation or concession contracts, especially in Latin America and Africa, where there have been some high profile cancellations of private management contracts in the water and waste sector and some criticism of privatised industry in the electricity sector. These have mostly focused on price rises. 141 PPI projects have been cancelled or were in distress, totalling $46.4 billion by the end of 2006. 62% of the cancelled investment ($28,659 million) was for projects in Latin America and 27% ($12.5 million) in Asia Pacific. The cancellations have not all been one sided, they have been instigated either by governments, by popular opposition or by the concessionaires. There is an escalating degree of opposition, mainly regarding privatisation in the developing countries.
Outline of the Report:
- The Multi-Utility Deregulation Report outlines the progress of market deregulation and privatisation in every continent and the situation of each of the countries
- The report provides an essential guide for those needing to understand the progress, the changes that have occurred and the future impact of deregulation and privatisation in the global energy and water markets
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