New Takeover Mania in the European Energy & Power Sector - Will It Affect Consumer Prices?
Article from: OGEL 1 (2006), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Introduction
For the last two decades many governments have started to shape their electricity industries primarily to increase consumer benefits by making the industry more efficient. In order to reach this goal, structural, institutional and regulatory changes have been enforced upon the electricity markets. As a result most incumbent marketers faced increasingly competitive markets, and started to reticulate their commercial activities across Europe to deal with the challenges of a changed electricity industry. Triggered by a wave of competition and market access disputes between ...