Andersen Consulting reckons that, by 2010, 40% of Europe's electricity market will use gas.
But, rightly, he wants to end its monopoly, and to open up the electricity market too.
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Meanwhile, the European Commission is trying to create one electricity market across its 25 member countries.
They filed for a patent for their technology for tying users back into the wholesale electricity market.
Mr Berlusconi could end it voluntarily, especially now the French electricity market is at least in theory opening up.
Then he pulled the plug on an emerging retail electricity market by imposing a four-year price freeze.
But it has significant market power, with 40% of the residential gas market and 25% of the electricity market.
Power plants were privatised and a competitive internal electricity market was set up.
Second, the electricity market will be calmed by the removal of regulatory uncertainty.
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Texas in particular is a draw, because it already has its own independent electricity market and a strong regulatory environment.
The proliferation of natural gas into the electricity market does nothing to reduce the correlation with heating and cooling requirements.
On that basis the installed capacity goes down a little, and the share of the electricity market drops to 7%.
"We have a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild our electricity market, rebuild investor confidence, and rebuild our power stations, " Mr Huhne said.
Which leads to something along the lines of the English electricity market.
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In just eight years, coal's share of the U.S. electricity market has tumbled from one-half to one third -- and still falling.
Labour has announced plans to get rid of the body charged with protecting consumer rights and regulating the gas and electricity market.
The people buying in the wholesale electricity market average out their prices.
It is not National Grid's first foray into the US electricity market.
But nuclear plants with their huge capital costs and glacial start-up times are a dicey proposition in Britain's liberalised electricity market, where prices fluctuate rapidly.
This involves interaction with all resources in the Nordic electricity market of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Germany and selling or buying electricity as needed.
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Its share of the electricity market is poised to grow substantially as coal plants are shut down in the face of tightening emissions requirements.
It is doubly disgruntled because, while power firms can already sell gas to 4.5m households, it cannot yet fight back in the electricity market.
This will make close co-operation between regulatory authorities a necessity as has been demonstrated in the joint governance of the Single Electricity market in Ireland.
Moreover, they will get the money up-front, giving them a war chest likely to frighten off many firms thinking of entering the state's electricity market.
There is, as it happens, a problem with the electricity market.
Legislators were concerned at the time that utilities would get locked into higher prices and be unable to take advantage of dips in the electricity market.
The Americans (and some Europeans) have years of experience in this area, which could help the Japanese, whose wholesale electricity market was thrown open in March.
The main debate is on the second reading of the Energy Bill, which seeks to reform the electricity market and provide a new framework for low-carbon generation.
MPs, is hardly in keeping with a liberalised electricity market.
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