Power Deals: positive outlook for 2011

February 2011

According to our new report, the global power deal market is finally seeing an upward trend in momentum from the lows reached in 2009.

The total deal value in the non-renewable electricity and gas sectors was up 19% year on year from US$97.6bn to US$116bn in 2010, in a year which also saw an end to the deal stalemate in the US leading to a renewed deal flow that looks set to continue in 2011.

Compared to the heady mountain of power deals transacted between 2005-2008, deal values remain low but conditions are in place for a return at least to the foothills of these peaks.

Power Deals 2010 reviews mergers and acquisitions activity in the power and gas utilities industry. The report is the latest edition in our annual series on deal-making, examining activity in all parts of the sector.

 

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