Energy Services in Europe: Regulatory pressure to boost market development

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Introduction

Abstract

Overview

Introduction

The energy management market is a major source of revenue growth for both utilities and other services providers. This growth is driven by rising energy costs (due to e.g. EU ETS and national Renewable Obligations) and also by EU legislation. This brief considers how existing and would-be providers of energy management solutions should prepare themselves to exploit the arising opportunities.

Table of Contents

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Recent and planned EU legislation will boost the energyservices market, but its impact will vary across customer segments
  • Service providers should carefully assess their targetmarket and, where necessary, grow their scale and scope
• CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
  • Brief subject area and target audience
  • Brief structure and contents
• CHAPTER 2 RECENT REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
  • Summary
  • Regulatory measures and voluntary schemes
    • The European Commission is preparing new legislationaimed at boosting energy efficiency
    • Existing legislation is being used in combination withvoluntary agreements and incentive schemes
  • Anticipated impact
    • The large commercial sector is likely to be affectedmost by existing and pending EU initiatives
    • Dedicated energy services providers and utilities willbenefit the most from anticipated market growth, but in differentsegments
• CHAPTER 3 MARKET SIZING
  • Summary
  • Take-up forecast
  • Datamonitors Energy Wastage Model
  • Market size forecast
• CHAPTER 4 FUTURE SCENARIOS
  • Summary
  • Market growth scenarios
    • Datamonitor envisages three different market growthscenarios, in relation to the future of EU ETS and the trend in energyprices
    • The majority of respondents view the high-growthscenario as the most likely one
  • Service provider positioning
    • Energy management services offer natural synergies withenergy supply, but realising those is far from straightforward
    • Commodity suppliers are poorly positioned to crediblyoffer energy services to non-residential customers
    • Most independent service providers are too specialised,and need to consolidate in order to exploit the existing synergies
• CHAPTER 5 ACTION POINTS
  • Recommendations for Energy service providers
• CHAPTER 6 APPENDIX
  • Estimating the "share of future spoils", byprovider type
  • European Utilities Knowledge Centre
  • Further readings
  • Research contacts
• List of Figures
  • Figure 1: The effect of recent and forthcoming EUlegislation on the energy management market
  • Figure 2: The likely benefactors of future growth inthe energy management market
  • Figure 3: Anticipated take-up of outsourced energymanagement solutions in 3 of the largest EU European markets by y. e.2006
  • Figure 4: Datamonitor Energy Wastage Model
  • Figure 5: Forecast market size for outsourced energymanagement solutions in selected markets, 2006
  • Figure 6: Likely market growth scenarios to 2010
  • Figure 7: Respondents views of the likelihood ofdifferent market growth scenarios to 2010
  • Figure 8: Energy management services as part of theenergy market place
  • Figure 9: The skill sets involved in energy commoditysupply and in added-value services provision
  • Figure 10: The continuum of added-value services andpossible synergies between niche providers
  • Figure 11: The likely benefactors of future growth inthe energy management market (by customer segment and overall)

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