As National Grid warns that creating an independent system operator would damage investor confidence in the UK energy market (see news, p9), another proposal for a system operator is gaining far less attention. Deep within Ofwat’s forest of Water 2020 literature is the idea that a system operator, or group of regional or catchment-based system operators, may be necessary to oversee water networks as the value chain disaggregates and systems become more complex.
Leader: Upstream water competition is already on its way
