Europe | London Economic Press

The market briefing is intended to provide both a thorough overview of each region’s electricity sector, while also allowing the reader to quickly identify the information needed. The market briefings are standardized as much as possible with this purpose in mind. That said, availability of accurate and consistent data for all aspects of the electricity sector is not uniform and thus there may be slight differences among the regions.

Each market briefing contains four pages that distill the most important information needed to clearly and comprehensively understand the current status and likely future evolution of the electricity sector in that particular country. Online Market Briefings contain:

Overview of each country or region’s electricity sector, including regulatory structure and private and foreign activity transmission issues and map, including ownership and operation, tariff regime, and grid access regulations wholesale market structures, including products sold, number of participants, volumes distribution and supply, tariff regime, level of retail switching

Key data on all industry segments such as demand, load growth, installed capacity, planned capacity additions and needs breakdown of installed capacity and annual generation, by fuel type and owner demand by consuming category (industry, commercial, residential, etc.), wholesale data where available retail prices over last 5 years directory of market participants

Geographic, economic and political context map indicating location and largest cities basic macroeconomic indicators (population, GDP per capita, expected economic growth) information regarding attitudes toward private and foreign investment

Market briefings are also arranged by year that they are updated:

New – updated from 2009 to 2011

Classic – updated from 2006 to 2008

Ancient – updated from 2005 and earlier

Market Briefs are available for download in Adobe PDF format once purchased. If you do not have Adobe (PDF) Reader you can download it for free by clicking here.