The study provides coverage of the following:

• Forecasts for annual average wholesale prices by region by region to 2018 (baseload, on-peak and off-peak).
• CRU’s power model analyses the five following regions: Northwest continential Europe, Scandinavia, Italy, England & Wales and Iberia.
• Forecasts of capacity requirements.
• Cost analysis based on CRU’s generating cost model.
• Overview of individual countries’ fundamentals, regulation issues and recent market developments..
• Detailed analysis of key input assumptions: macro, fuel prices, load, transmission and capacity investment
• Scenario analysis based on changes to key assumptions
• Analysis of the impact of the European emissions trading scheme on power prices from 2005-2018.
• Clear presentation of key results in the report, with detailed results and charts supplies on a CD.

CRU's Electric Power Team provides a wide range of services in the field of electric power, including studies, presentations and advice.  Its staff has a strong understanding of the technical and economic concepts driving the power business, and has applied this understanding across a wide variety of assignments in recent years.

 The team was founded in 1998 to capitalise on CRU's extensive historical involvement in industrial power supplies and energy industry analysis.  Investigating the fields of electricity liberalisation and the electricity supply industry, especially in terms of bulk power supplies to power-intensive consumers.

The Team's customers include some of the world's leading generators and electricity suppliers, industrial power consumers, fuel suppliers and governments.  The client base includes the following companies: Atel, Alcoa, EdF, Electrabel, Elkem, Glencore, Hydro Quebec, Ingwe, RWE, Statkraft, TVA, TXUEurope and Vattenfall.  These clients are able to draw both on our input from models, reports and presentations as well as our extensive database of industry knowledge.

In particular, we have invested considerably in tools to analyse and forecast wholesale power markets.  Based on this work, we have also carved out a niche in analysing power supply arrangements to industry.  In all our work, we are able furthermore to draw on the accumulated experience of CRU in the power-intensive, basic commodity industries it serves, especially aluminium, chemicals, ferroalloys and steel.  The Team is also able to draw on CRU's associate company, CRU Strategies, for specialist assignments requiring management consultancy skills.

Other power reports and services include:

LNG and the globalization of gas markets: implications for stakeholders

Large scale industrial power loads in Europe

Aluminium smelter power tariffs

Deregulating bulk power supplies in Europe

The European emissions trading scheme: impact on the metals industry

Contact
For more information, please contact:

Mark Fraser
Power Manager
CRU Strategies
tel:  +44 20 7903 2314
email: mark.fraser@crugroup.com