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The Top 10 US Utilities Companies: Growth Strategies, Performance and SWOT Analyses
Business Insights, Jan 2010, Pages: 162
This report profiles the leading players in the US utility industry comprising electricity, gas and water markets. Electricity utility market consists of power generation and sale of electricity to industrial, commercial, household and other end-users, including agricultural and transport users. The gas utilities market consists of only downstream operations (distribution to end-customers) and excludes up and midstream activities (exploration, production and storage of gas). Water utilities are defined as activities involved in collection, treatment and distribution of water to end-users and collection and treatment of waste water.
This report analyzes the US utility industry, focusing on:- pricing; production; consumption; and trends. This report profiles the top ten companies in the industry and also involves a brief summary of top 11 to 20 players.
Key features of this report
- Power generation and gas production in the US market during 2004-08.
- Trends of the US utility industry.
- Identification of the top 10 players in the US utility industry.
- Company analysis and market share of the top 10 players in the US utility industry.
- Strategic and growth analysis of leading US utilities.
Scope of this report
- Learn from the strategies of the US utilities to target future growth markets effectively, avoid their mistakes, replicate their successes and learn of the threats they face.
- Benchmark your performance against the leading US utilities using market share data by company and comprehending their strategies.
- Understand the major issues affecting the US utility industry.
- Predict the key growth areas in the US utility industry.
- Save time, money and resources on analyzing the performance of the key US utilities using this report.
Key Market Issues
- Environmental regulations: Stringent environmental regulations to curb GHG emissions in the US will result in additional capital expenditure on cleaner technologies.
- Consolidation: The US is witnessing increased consolidation post the repeal of PUHCA in 2005. In addition to the repeal of PUHCA, the financial crisis also forced companies to sell their assets to strengthen their financial position providing an opportunity to financially strong companies to expand their generation fleet and geographic presence.
- Price volatility: Gas prices are highly volatile as they depend on oil prices, expected weather, gas demand and investments in gas pipelines and additional regasification capacity Etc.
Key findings from this report
- The US utility sector is dominated by Exelon in terms of revenues during 2008 with operations predominantly in the power segment.
- The US power generation fuel mix witnessed a perceptible shift towards cleaner sources of energy during 1998–2008 backed by government’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
- Several utility firms across the US are focusing on renewable energy based power generation projects dominated by wind energy.
- Since 2007, the power sector is witnessing increased consolidation subsequent to the repeal of Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA). Prior to the repeal, utility operations were limited by geographic location.
Key questions answered
- What are the trends in the US utility industry?
- Who are the top 10 players in the industry?
- What are the growth strategies of the top 10 companies?
- What are the strengths of the top 10 players in the US utility industry?
- What are the weaknesses of the top 10 players?
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