This brief provides an analysis of the opinion of industry stakeholders on the challenges to the power and gas sector. Datamonitor completed surveys with three groups of industry stakeholders. The stakeholders were 516 major energy users ( buyers), 50 UK energy brokers and 61 energy sector employees, asking them about energy market issues such as security of supply and managing climate change.

• analysis of views of energy sector stakeholders on security of supply, reducing CO2 emissions and increases in energy prices.
• topical discussion on the potential challenges facing the market accompanied by quantitative ratings of potential solutions to these challenges.
• discussion on the influence of new nuclear build on the energy sector and the ratings of stakeholders as to its potential.


Highlights



Massive challenges face the energy sector, not just prices and stakeholders believe the UK energy market needs to face up to its challenges.





Security of supply concerns are based on insufficient gas imports and nuclear.





The spectre of nuclear hangs over the UK energy sector, but do not disregard the value of nuclear in climate change.



Reasons to Purchase


• understand opinion on issues surrounding security of supply and managing climate change.
• gain a quantitative analysis on the ratings of different technologies in ensuring security of supply and managing climate change.
• understand stakeholder opinion on the energy market and how they believe it has to change.