EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update: October-December 2013

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EMEA Utilities Industry Quarterly Update: October-December 2013

This IDC Energy Insights Perspective provides a quick one-stop-shopping overview of the EMEA utilities industry in the fourth quarter of 2013, covering:

• M&As, agreements, reorganizations, and major business developments
• New financing deals
• Major completed plant and infrastructure projects
• Major ongoing plant and infrastructure construction projects, pilots, and new announcements
• Update on nuclear developments
• Smart metering, smart grid, and energy-efficiency initiatives
• Major emobility activities
• ICT ecosystem major acquisitions and agreements
• Major ICT and operational technology contracts wins
• ICT product announcements

In order to provide a business background, this study analyzes major trends in commodities pricing, CO2 trading, and utilities stocks.

Table of Contents

In This Perspective

Situation Overview

Business Environment and Regulation, 4Q13

GDP Trends

Demand, Supply, and Prices

Oil Indicators

Electricity Prices

Listed Utilities' Performance

Carbon Emissions Trading and Energy Trading

Renewable Energy Market Trends and Incentives

Indicators of Renewable Performances on Financial Markets

Venture Capital Funding to Smart Grid Technologies

Smart Grids and Smart Metering

Nuclear Power

M&As, Agreements, Reorganizations, and Major Business Developments, 4Q13

Gazprom Energy Signs Hydropower Offtake Deal with Infinis

MBB Clean Energy Acquires Three Dresser-Rand PV Power Plants in Italy

ADNOC, Masdar to Develop Commercial-Scale CCUS Projects

France to Build an Institute for Excellence in Carbon-free Energy

Acciona to Sell Wind Farms, Exiting German Market

E.ON Sells 80% Share of R?dsand II Offshore Wind Farm to SEAS-NVE

Fortum to Sell its Electricity Distribution Business in Finland

GDF Suez to Shut Down U.K. Teesside Gas Plant

Centrica to Abandon Plans for Wind Farm

New Financing Deals, 4Q13

White Rose Wins Share Of CCS Commercialization Pot

U.K. Government Will not Subsidize New Gas Storage Facilities

Saudi Arabia Investing in Water Desalination

Morocco Gets German Loan for Solar Plants

AfDB Approves a Loan for Zambia Energy Project

SunEdison Gets Funding for 60MW Boshof Solar Park

Major Completed Plant and Infrastructure Projects, 4Q13

E.ON Opens K?rehamn Offshore Wind Farm in Sweden

Abengoa Finalizes the Largest Solar Complex

Poland's Tauron Opens 82MW Wind Farm

Enel Green Power Has Connected a New PV Plant in Romania

Major Ongoing Plant and Infrastructure Construction Projects, Pilots, and New Announcements, 4Q13

Drax Coal-to-Biomass Conversion Plant Gets Underway

Solar Park to be Built in North Wales

SSE Approved to Build Pumped Storage Plant in Scotland

DONG Energy, Siemens Sign a Deal for Offshore Wind Projects

Eltel Wins Transmission System Contracts of Kraftn?t ?land

Vattenfall Open for Competitive Bidding in Sweden

Shanghai Electric to Build PGE's Plant in Poland

Dutch Water and Paper Industries Sign Collaborative Agreement with Israel

GE Will Build Wind Farm in Turkey

Jordan Wind to Begin Construction of Utility-Scale Wind Power Project

Alstom Grid Contracts Support Saudi Energy Boom

Saudi Arabia to Build Solar-Powered Desalination Plant in Al-Khafji

Abengoa to Develop 100MW Solar Plant in South Africa

Mainstream Renewable Power Consortium Awarded 360MW of Wind Projects in South Africa Government Tender

Large Solar Plant Planned for Cameroon

EDF Signs Deal to Build Hydro Plant in Cameroon

Ethiopia Eyes Export of Geothermal Energy to East Africa

Enphase "Commitment to Action" for Nigerian Microgrid Project

Nuclear: New Developments, 4Q13

U.K. Government Gives Go-Ahead for $26-Billion Nuclear Deal

U.K. Guarantees Nuclear Power Price

Russian Firm Set to Build Jordan's First Nuclear Plants

Swiss Muehleberg Nuclear Plant to Shut Down in 2019

Turkey's First Nuclear Power Plant Likely to Be Delayed

JSC Atomstroyexport Leverages New AVEVA Technology

Smart Grid, Smart Meter, and Energy Efficiency (Including Smart City) Initiatives, 4Q13

Fortum Completes Smart Meter Installation Project in Finland

Energa-Operator Completes First Stage of Smart Meter Rollout

Thames Water Installs U.K. Smart Water Meters

RWE Subsidiary Selects Itron for Smart Water Metering Solution

Acciona Agua to Roll Out Spain's First Smart Water Grid

Echelon, Kapsch Smart Energy Win Austrian Smart Meter Pilots

Two Frontrunner Smart Metering Pilots in Turkey

Smart Water Meter from Kamstrup Approved in South Africa

Prepay Meters for South Sudan

Iran's Smart Grid Deployment

EDF Energy Using Panasonic Tablets for U.K. Smart Meter Rollout

Accenture Supports Endesa's 13-Million Smart Meters Rollout

GrDf Entrusts Atos Worldgrid for the Gas Smart Meters Program

ScottishPower, Itron Extend Contract of Prepayment Services

Vattenfall's HafenCity Project to Use Orga Systems' Smart Energy Billing

Enerjisa Baskent EDAS Deploys Siemens Smart Metering Solution

Indra Implements Metering Data Management System in Turkey

ERDF Taps Teradata as New Analytic Power Source

E.ON, Opower Introduce New Consumer Tool

RWE npower Selects Geo Smart Energy Display for Customers

Silver Spring Networks Selected for Citywide Smart Lighting Network

Silver Spring Networks Selected for Smart Streetlight and Traffic Signal Project

Major eMobility Agreements, 4Q13

Sixt Car Rental Drives Market Demand with QlikView Business Discovery Platform

400 New Charging Stations in Vienna

Enel, Endesa Unveil New Fast-Charge Point for Electric Vehicles

Park Smart, Pollute Less

ICT Ecosystem Major Acquisitions and Agreements, 4Q13

Schneider Electric Completes $5.6-Billion Acquisition of Invensys

Aurelius Buys Telvent Global Services from Schneider Electric

Powel Acquires Delta Energy Solution

Accenture, Siemens Form Joint Venture

Areva, Capgemini Negotiating Euriware Acquisition

Deutsche Telekom Partners with ista

LogNet Systems Partners with FPT Information System

IQRF Alliance for Smarter Wireless Launched

ICT Contract Wins, 4Q13

DONG Energy, Schneider Electric Partner on Microgrid Solution

E.ON Climate & Renewables Leveraging GE's PowerUp Platform

EDF to Deploy Private Cloud-Based Infrastructure

RWE Awards T-Systems Workplace Management Service Contract

RWE Chose Capita to Provide Front-Office Customer Management and Back-Office Services

ElectraLink Selects HP to Reduce Data Transfer Costs

Viridian Extends IT Contract with Capita Managed IT Solutions

iCS Selects Junifer's New Utility CIS SaaS Offering

Siberian Electric Grid Company Deploys Videoconferencing Solution

ICT Product Announcements, 4Q13

Itron Releases New Smart Solution for Water

Itron Releases New Gas Communication Module

Trilliant Extends Platform with Smart Meter M2M System

Telecon Releases Smart Grid Solution

New SAP Multichannel Foundation Software for Customer Engagement

ModemTec Launched New Fast Multichannel PLC Concept

AGT International Releases SafeGRID to the Energy Market

Kamstrup Releases OMNICON UtiliKeeper

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Figure: Soci?t? G?n?rale's ERIX Index 12-Month Hindsight

Figure: Electricity Projects of Common Interest

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