Datamonitor's Utilities in Asia-Pacific industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the utilities industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

Why you should buy this report

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* Inform your business decisions

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* Save time carrying out entry-level research

Market Definition

The utilities industry consists of the electricity, gas and water markets. The electricity market consists of the sale of electricity to industrial, commercial, household and other end-users, including agricultural and transport users. The market value has been calculated according to average annual electricity prices.

The gas utilities market is calculated as the total value of natural gas used by industrial, (including energy generators purchasing gas from utilities), commercial, residential, and other end-users (including transport and agriculture users).The water utilities industry consists of all water that is collected, treated and distributed to end-users. The industry has been valued according to average annual end-user prices. All currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II 11
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis 12
5.1 Water Utilities 12
5.2 Electricity 13
5.3 Gas Utilities 14
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 15
6.1 Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated 15
6.2 Kansai Electric Power Co, Inc, The 18
6.3 Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 20
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 23
7.1 Market Value Forecast 23
CHAPTER 8 Appendix 24
8.1 Methodology 24
8.2 Industry Associations 25
8.3 Related Datamonitor Research 25

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Asia-Pacific Utilities Industry Value: $ billion, 2002-2006 9
Table 2: Asia-Pacific Utilities Industry Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2006 10
Table 3: Asia-Pacific Utilities Industry Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2006 11
Table 4: Key Facts: Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated 15
Table 5: Key Financials: Tokyo Electric Power Company 17
Table 6: Key Facts: Kansai Electric Power Co, Inc, The 18
Table 7: Key Facts: Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 20
Table 8: Key Financials: Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 22
Table 9: Asia-Pacific Utilities Industry Value Forecast: $ billion, 2006-2011 23