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Policy and analysis

  • Non-household retail competition: Illustrating the possible impact of exit from the non-household retail market Prepared for WICS and Ofwat
    March 2014
  • Water and Sewerage Services in Scotland: an overview of the competitive market
    November 2013
  • Overview of the competitive retail market for water and sewerage services
    Joint leaflet WICS/Ofwat (January 2014)
  • Water and sewerage retail competition in Scotland
    February 2012
  • Briefing note
    The introduction of retail competition in water and sewerage services
  • Retail competition
    The story so far, the journey to come
  • WICS note on retail competition
     
  • A way forward?
    Eight principles
  • WICS' response to Deloitte's article
    'Competition vs. regulation?: How best to sell water'
  • Water retail market savings: the experience in Scotland
    Article that originally appeared in the Oxera journal 'Agenda' (May 2011)
  • Retail competition in Scotland
    An audit trail of the costs incurred and the savings achieved
  • Introducing retail competition in the UK water/waste water sector
    A 'lessons learned' paper (full document)
  • Introducting retail water competition in Scotland
    Lessons learned (summary document)
  • Cost benefit assessment (competition)
    Report by Grant Thornton
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