Gas Utilities in Belgium

Introduction

Gas Utilities in Belgium industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Belgium gas utilities market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

• The gas utilities market covers all natural gas consumption, net of distribution or transmission losses, by end-users in the following categories: industrial (including use as a feedstock and autogeneration), commercial and public-sector organization, residential consumer, electric power generation (including combined heat and power but excluding autogeneration and heat plant), and other (including transport, agriculture, centralized heat plant, and other usage). Values are calculated from segment volumes and the average annual price of gas charged to end-users in each segment net of any applicable taxes. In some countries, synthetic gas (also called syngas, coal gas, city gas, etc) or biogas (generated from waste materials) may be used in a similar manner to natural gas, and has therefore been included in the market volume. To take into account the different energy content of such gases, all calculations were carried out in energy units, and then converted to bcf using the conversion factor for natural gas. Market shares were calculated as the total volume of gas sold to external end-users in all segments, divided by the total market volume. To avoid the risk of double-counting, gas volumes that were distributed to end-users on behalf of another retailer under third-party network access agreements are not included. Wholesale, trading, and storage volumes are excluded (except for Russia where both wholesale and retail volumes are included). For companies which operate in both gas and power sectors, any self-supply to their own gas-fired generation plant is excluded. All currency conversions are at constant average annual 2011 exchange rates.
• The Belgian gas utilities industry had total revenues of $9 billion in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.3% between 2007 and 2011.
• Industry consumption volumes decreased with a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -6.2% between 2007-2011, to reach a total of 475.4 billion cubic feet in 2011.
• The performance of the industry is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.8% for the five-year period 2011 - 2016, which is expected to drive the industry to a value of $11.4 billion by the end of 2016.

Features

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the Belgium economy

Key Questions Answered

What was the size of the Belgium gas utilities market by value in 2011?

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