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Power Generation Market Concentration in Europe 1996-2000 (2002)
| Author | Öko-Institut, Mattthis, Poetzsch |
| Date | May 2002 |
| Classification | 6.04.0.30/15 (INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS - LIBERALISATION) |
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Power Generation Market Concentration in Europe Öko-Institut Abstract The liberalisation of the European power market has significantly changed the framework of the electricity industry. The process of market opening and securing fair, transparent and sustainable third party access is still under way. But (incomplete) liberalisation can be thwarted by concentration trends in the electricity generation market. The study analyses the market concentration trends on six regional markets in Europe from 1996 to 2000 based on different methodological approaches. The analysis shows two very different development patterns. On the one hand, the market concentration in the United Kingdom decreased significantly in the last years and lead to electricity generation markets that can be called unconcentrated similar to the Scandinavian power production market. On the other hand, market concentration and its trends are occurring in all other regions. In markets which are characterized by former centralized state monopolies the concentration indicators remain very high. Furthermore, especially on the German market, which is historically characterized by a diversity of power generation, the recent and the upcoming mergers push the concentration indicators to levels which are more and more critically. Given this background it is necessary to build more strict competition rules in the electricity markets as a necessary counterbalance to these developments. Key elements of this approach are a stricter unbundling, a more stringent regulatory basis for third party access, a premium for decentralised power generation taking into account long term avoided network costs and the elimination of other market distortions.
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