Case study The energy marketplace in the Netherlands has been restructured significantly in recent years. The country has moved away from regionally based, vertically integrated energy providers to a system in which commercial providers have been separated from the companies delivering electricity and gas. That enables more than 7 million households in the country to have greater choice about the terms and costs for energy supply, while enabling the major utility companies, of which Enexis is one of the largest, to focus on what they do best: efficient delivery of gas and electricity. This approach is also designed to manage the much more flexible market that is now emerging. Growing use of renewable energy means that every household can potentially be a micro-generator in

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