Integration into the Business Organization

Abstract

With the liberalization of energy markets, power companies in particular were confronted with different forms of organization. The original integrated handling of all fields of sales, trading, generation, and infrastructure system was no longer possible for larger companies due to the new framework, as the “unbundling act” prevented this previous integration. As part of the necessary corporate reorganization, the internal processes have been generally studied in order to achieve a higher efficiency as the utilities are suddenly exposed to competition in the liberalized world. Competition has also been established between different companies in the remaining monopoly of network operators because of the introduction of efficiency benchmarks of the regulator.