Monday 17 June 2013

Energy Companies, Large & Small

Well, there's a thing.  Someone else reading C@W diligently.
Energy industry needs fewer, bigger players - MPs told: the best way to generate more competition in the gas and electricity industry is to have fewer, big players - a top consultant claims today.

Actually, retrenchment to a Big 4 is not the answer.  A realistic end-state is a big 10 or so of heterogeneously-profiled, properly capitalised players with none of them allowed to be fully vertically integrated.

My invoice is in the post.

ND

8 comments:

James Higham said...

Someone else reading C@W diligently.

Ah, acknowledgement is a wonderful thing.

Nick Drew said...

well it would be, wouldn't it?!

Graeme said...

big 2 big 4 big x...just meaningful competition. we know that oil majors compare notes but...as long as they keep it in line, we do not complain unless we are as stupid as Osborne and brown.

Oil majors have a long history of reasonable collusion/oligopoly. The price of gas in the US...the price of gas in Europe...reasonably stable over the long-term.

Mobile phone companies are still learning the rules. So you get wild but short-lived swings while the companies settle down and accommodate. Roaming calls and data are the bone. Reduce rates for EU roaming and non-EU roaming will SOAR.

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My invoice is in the post.
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