Utilities in South Africa - Industry and Country Analysis

Published : July 2011
No. of Pages : 64

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Project Synopsis:
Utilities in South Africa – Industry and Country Analysis provides five forces Industry analysis, along with PESTLE country analysis of South Africa. This report concludes with profiles of the leading companies in the South African utilities market.

Project Description:
Includes market value/volume, geographical segmentation, and five forces (buyer power, supplier power, new entrants, substitutes, and rivalry) analysis of the Utilities Industry in South Africa. The PESTLE analysis section analyzes the current challenges, future prospects and risks across political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental areas of the country.

Scope:
* Contains data on market value, volume and/or segmentation for Utilities in South Africa

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis

* analyzes the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure of South Africa

* The leading companies are identified with supporting key financial metrics (where available)

Market Definition:
The utilities industry consists of the electricity market, and gas and water utilities industries.
The electricity market consists of the sale of electricity to industrial, commercial, household, transportation, and other end-users, including agricultural. The market value has been calculated according to average annual electricity prices.
The gas utilities industry 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 net of any applicable taxes.
The water utilities industry consists of all water that is collected, treated and distributed to agricultural, industrial (including power generation cooling), and residential end-users. The industry is valued using average annual end-user prices alongside extraction volumes.
All currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2009 annual average exchange rates.

Highlights:
The South African utilities industry had total revenue of $9.1 billion in 2009, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6% for the period spanning 2005-2009.

The electricity segment was the industry's most lucrative in 2009, with total revenue of $5.6 billion, equivalent to 62.2% of the industry's overall value.

The performance of the industry is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 9.7% for the five-year period 2009-2014, which is expected to drive the industry to a value of $14.4 billion by the end of 2014.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
INTRODUCTION 3
Market definition 3
Research highlights 3
UTILITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: MARKET OVERVIEW 8
Market analysis 8
Market Value, 2005–09 9
Market value forecast, 2009–14 10
Market Segmentation by Category 11
UTILITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 12
Summary 12
Buyer power 14
Supplier power 15
New entrants 17
Substitutes 19
Rivalry 21
SOUTH AFRICA: PESTLE ANALYSIS 22
Summary 22
Political analysis 23
Economic analysis 28
Social analysis 33
Technology analysis 37
Legal analysis 40
Environmental analysis 44
UTILITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: LEADING COMPANIES 48
Eskom Holdings Limited 48
Sasol Limited 53
Egoli Gas 61
APPENDIX 62
Methodology 62
ABOUT DATAMONITOR 64
Premium Reports 64
Summary Reports 64
Datamonitor consulting 64

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: South Africa utilities industry value: $ billion, 2005–09 9
Table 2: South Africa utilities industry value forecast: $ billion, 2009–14 10
Table 3: South Africa utilities industry segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009 11
Table 4: Analysis of South Africa’s political landscape 23
Table 5: Analysis of the South African economy 28
Table 6: Analysis of the South African social system 33
Table 7: Analysis of South Africa's technology landscape 37
Table 8: Analysis of South Africa's legal landscape 40
Table 9: Analysis of South Africa's environmental landscape 44
Table 10: Eskom Holdings Limited: key facts 48
Table 11: Eskom Holdings Limited: key financials ($) 50
Table 12: Eskom Holdings Limited: key financials (ZAR) 50
Table 13: Eskom Holdings Limited: key financial ratios 51
Table 14: Sasol Limited: key facts 53
Table 15: Sasol Limited: key financials ($) 58
Table 16: Sasol Limited: key financials (ZAR) 58
Table 17: Sasol Limited: key financial ratios 59
Table 18: Egoli Gas: key facts 61

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: South Africa utilities industry value: $ billion, 2005–09 9
Figure 2: South Africa utilities industry value forecast: $ billion, 2009–14 10
Figure 3: South Africa utilities industry segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009 11
Figure 4: Forces driving competition in the utilities industry in South Africa, 2009 12
Figure 5: Drivers of buyer power in the utilities industry in South Africa, 2009 14
Figure 6: Drivers of supplier power in the utilities industry in South Africa, 2009 15
Figure 7: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the utilities industry in South Africa, 2009 17
Figure 8: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the utilities industry in South Africa, 2009 19
Figure 9: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the utilities industry in South Africa, 2009 21
Figure 10: Eskom Holdings Limited: revenues & profitability 51
Figure 11: Eskom Holdings Limited: assets & liabilities 52
Figure 12: Sasol Limited: revenues & profitability 59
Figure 13: Sasol Limited: assets & liabilities 60

Utilities in South Africa - Industry and Country Analysis

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