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This report covers: Electricity distribution, electricity supply, electricity market structure, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Distribution Network Figures, Load Investment, Non-Load Investment, capital investment, capex, critical success factors, Regional Electricity Companies, RECs, Public Electricity Supply Companies, PECs, electricity pool, electricity trading, generators, power procurement, New Electricity Trading Arrangements, NETA, short term power exchanges, National Grid, balancing mechanism

Companies covered include: East Midlands Electricity, Infralec, London Electricity, Manweb, Midlands Electricity, Northern Electric, Northern Ireland Electricity, Norweb, Scottish & Southern Energy, ScottishPower, SEEBOARD, Southern Electric, SWEB, TXU Europe Group, Yorkshire Electricity

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This report analyses investment by the 12 regional electricity distribution and supply companies in the UK, Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy in Scotland and Northern Ireland Electricity. The 12 Regional Electricity Companies (REC’s) in England and Wales, also known as Public Electricity Supply Companies (PEC’s), are the direct successors to the previous Area Boards. It also examines the electricity supply companies’ capital expenditure and financial performance.

At the time of writing, the Electricity Pool of England and Wales was at the centre of the trading arrangements in the wholesale electricity market. The Pool provides a mechanism for setting a single wholesale price. It is compulsory for licensed generators to sell the vast majority of their electricity output through the Pool and for licensed suppliers to purchase their supplies from the Pool to meet the demand from their customers.

In contrast, the vertically integrated structure of the Scottish companies covering generation, transmission, distribution and supply means that Scotland does not have a wholesale electricity marker like the Pool in England and Wales. At the time of writing, the trading arrangements consisted of two separate but interconnected trading areas which are also interconnected with the England and Wales market. Similarly, at the time of writing there was no electricity pool in the restructured industry in Northern Ireland. The power production companies are all required to sell their electricity to the power procurement business of Northern Ireland Electricity, which then sells directly to licensed suppliers, including Northern Ireland Electricity’s own supply business.

New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) - Under the NETA the electricity pool will be replaced by trading arrangements much more like those in other community markets. Based on bilateral trading between generators, suppliers, traders and customers, the market will be contract driven. The new arrangements will include

• Forward and future markets including short term power exchanges, which will evolve in response to the requirements of participants and will allow contracts for electricity to be made over a time scale ranging from several years ahead to on-the-day markets
• A balancing mechanism in which National Grid, as the system operator, accepts offers of, and bids for, electricity to enable it to balance generation and demand and resolve any constraints on the transmission system
• A settlement process for charging participants whose contracted positions do not match their metered volumes of electricity, for the settlement of accepted balancing mechanism offers and bids, and for recovering the system operators cost of balancing the system

A unit of electricity is the approximate quantity of electrical energy absorbed by a one-bar electric fire during one hour. A unit is equal to 1 kilowatt hour.

Voltage

kV (kilovolt) is a thousand volts

Power

kW (kilowatt) is a thousand watts
MW (megawatt) is a million watts or a thousand kilowatts
GW (gigawatt) is a thousand megawatts or a million kilowatts
TW (terawatt) is a million megawatts or a thousand million kilowatts

Energy MWh (megawatt hour) is one hour’s electricity production or consumption at a constant rate of 1 MW GWh (gigawatt hour) is one hour’s electricity production or consumption at a constant rate of 1 GW TWh (terawatt hour) is one hour’s electricity production or consumption at a constant rate of 1 TW

All values are quoted at current prices unless otherwise specified.

Due to the fact that the year end for the electricity distribution and supply companies is March and therefore the majority of the business year is in the year previous to the year end, euro rates for the year prior to the stated year end have been applied.

MSI has a policy of rounding numbers from five up to the next significant. Consequently, financial data may differ from sources documents.

Text © 2001MSI

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