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Shahla
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: Bigger and Better Utility Companies |
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Size and scale have long been secrets to success in the business of providing essential services. Since the advent of mass-distributed electricity, natural gas, communications and water more than a century ago, companies have consistently become more profitable by getting bigger.
In the first days of essential services, they were solely the province of the elite, delivered by literally thousands of individual systems. Providers quickly discovered they could do things far more cheaply and profitably by getting larger, chiefly by merging and acquiring neighboring systems. Mass production drove down costs and made it possible to offer utility services at a lower price to all. That, more than anything else, made them completely ubiquitous and more essential than ever to daily life.
Electricity, for example, is now 40 percent of all energy used in the US, according to the US Energy Information Agency. That's up from just 15 percent in 1970, and the trend promises to accelerate with the proliferation of electricity-driven transport. Rapid electrification is even more pronounced overseas, particularly in the developing world.
Scale established itself immediately in the communications industry, as Theodore Vail convinced trust-busting President Theodore Roosevelt to allow his AT&T a national monopoly. The rationale was that only a company with a guaranteed return on investment and no competition could wire the country.
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