Energy Services in Europe: Regulatory pressure to boost market development

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)