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Industry Analysis - Utilities

By far the biggest event in the utilities sector in the 2007 calendar is the EU-wide electricity and gas market deregulation, which takes place on 1 July. This is predicted to drive supplier consolidation as the ‘race for scale’ hots up.

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CIO 100 COMPANIES IN Utilities

20. Centrica

Centrica, the UK utility giant operates in an industry embroiled in a mix of global environmental and economic uncertainty. Consumer gas and electricity bills have soared in line with increasing wholesale prices, challenging margins in the company’s core UK residential business, operating under brands including British Gas.

21. Rentokil Initial

Since his arrival as CIO at Rentokil-Initial in June last year Bryan Kinsella has been driving what he describes as a very large IT agenda. "We are intending to invest heavily, but carefully, in IT as we work to standardise and consolidate platforms on a global basis," he says.

44. BUPA

BUPA had a very successful year, with the rate of change in the business and its IT systems continuing unabated, according to group IS director John Lister.

46. National Grid

National Grid is one of the world's largest utility companies, made up of a collection of international electricity and gas companies based in the UK and Northeastern US.

70. RWE Npower

Things look a bit sticky this summer for npower, as in scenes not seen since all those comical multimillion gas bills from the start of computerisation in the 1960s. A Cambridgeshire house got a bill for, £90m. To make matters worse, that £90m bill was to a woman who was on a prepaid meter and thus shouldn't even get a quarterly bill.

71. EDF Energy

Energy companies operating in the UK have seldom been out of the news this year. Dealing with rising oil prices, the green lobby and the dismal economic outlook have meant a busy year for the French owned utility company, EDF Energy.

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