The utilities markets, both energy and water, are dominated by a relatively small number of big corporations, with scores of smaller organizations controlling different aspects of the industry on the side. Even though local delivery is still done by “local companies,” ownership has been gradually shifting to a limited group of companies.
With increasing competition is the existing business model in the utilities industry viable? Or is the call for economies of scale inevitable.
Yet the outcome of the bundling and unbundling discussion is not yet clear: venture capitalist Eric Knight demands the split-up of French utilities giant Suez into an energy-firm and a water-firm.
