Sparking connections

The electricity industry is changing rapidly. The first years of liberalisation mainly brought competition between utilities. The separation of supply (retail) from distribution, however, and the introduction ofcompetition for residential customers has taken the electric utilities out of their familiar territory into the stroppy waters of fighting for the consumer. Quite a change of paradigm! UNIPEDE, one of the two founding organisations of what has now become The Union of the Electricity Industry - EURELECTRIC, has decided to analyse in detail the challenges created by this paradigm shift and the starting position of its members in comparison with existing consumer...