Energy Services in Europe: Regulatory pressure to boost market development

Publication Date	October 2005
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Report
Pages	25
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT00528

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Summary

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.

Scope

insight to the market potential for energy services in the EU as a result of recent directives
understanding of the characteristics that energy services providers require to be able to sell to different customer groups
knowledge of the EU directives that determine the services that utilities will be regulated to provide

Highlights

Suppliers should prepare for a buoyant market for energy services out to 2010 as high prices will in combination with EU directives, substantially grow the market for energy services while the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) remains rigorously enforced.

In particular, specialist providers can use their impartiality to approach the business sector where suppliers will suffer percieved lack of impartiality. Larger engineering companies are capable of providing the bespoke technical solutions that go beyond the in-house technical expertise of large industrial companies.

Utilities as well as specialist energy service providers should prepare their offerings and target those customers that they either already have contact and business with, or those customer segments with demands that they are capable of meeting.

Reasons to Purchase

develop a strategy for the EU energy services and energy efficiency market
visualise the components of an energy services provider that are required to sell to specific business and residential sectors
learn about pending EU regulation covering compulsory energy efficiency and energy services provision

Content

Executive Summary

Recent and planned EU legislation will boost the energy services market, but its impact will vary across customer segments
Service providers should carefully assess their target market 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 legislation aimed at boosting energy efficiency
- Existing legislation is being used in combination with voluntary agreements and incentive schemes
- Anticipated impact
- The large commercial sector is likely to be affected most by existing and pending EU initiatives
- Dedicated energy services providers and utilities will benefit the most from anticipated market growth, but in different segments
Chapter 3 Market Sizing
- Summary
- Take-up forecast
- Datamonitor's Energy Wastage Model
- Market size forecast
Chapter 4 Future Scenarios
- Summary
- Market growth scenarios
- Datamonitor envisages three different market growth scenarios, in relation to the future of EU ETS and the trend in energy prices
- The majority of respondents view the high-growth scenario as the most likely one
- Service provider positioning
- Energy management services offer natural synergies with energy supply, but realising those is far from straightforward
- Commodity suppliers are poorly positioned to credibly offer 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
Chapter 6 Appendix
- Estimating the "share of future spoils", by provider type
- European Utilities Knowledge Centre
- Further readings
- Research contacts
List Of Figures
- Figure 1: The effect of recent and forthcoming EU legislation on the energy management market
- Figure 2: The likely benefactors of future growth in the energy management market
- Figure 3: Anticipated take-up of outsourced energy management 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 energy management solutions in selected markets, 2006
- Figure 6: Likely market growth scenarios to 2010
- Figure 7: Respondent's views of the likelihood of different market growth scenarios to 2010
- Figure 8: Energy management services as part of the energy market place
- Figure 9: The skill sets involved in energy commodity supply and in added-value services provision
- Figure 10: The continuum of added-value services and possible synergies between niche providers
- Figure 11: The likely benefactors of future growth in the energy management market (by customer segment and overall)