Utilities
A secure and affordable supply of energy, clean water and sustainable waste management are basic needs for each individual and our communities in society. EPSU believes that the best way to ensure that these needs are met is through the public management of utilities services, proper regulation of the sector and decent working conditions for employees. We represent workers in the electricity, gas, water and waste sectors – both public and private – and it is our job to make sure that their voices are listened to at a European level.
EPSU’s Utilities work has seen a number of successes, most notably the ECI Campaign Right2Water, in which nearly two million European citizens joined our call for the implementation of the human right to clean drinking water and sanitation in the EU.
Tuscany Bell is the EPSU policy officer for the sector. The President of the Standing Committee is Mrs. Donna Rowe-Merriman, UNISON, U.K.
View contactsTake workers' and citizens' interests into account in EU-Russia Energy Dialogue
(18 June 2007) Leaders of the Russian energy trade unions (production, transmission, distribution; state and municipal utilities) stated very clearly that opening of the electricity and gas markets will hurt
Keynes on why competition in electricity and other network industries doesnot work
(18 September 2007) John Maynard Keynes identified in the 1920s cost and demand conditions under which competition doesn't emerge. This seems largely forgotten. Keynes goes further, to explain how economists
Proposals for liberalising the European energy market fail to meet the real challenges
Brussels, 20/09/2007 {{ {Yesterday, the European Commission published its plans for liberalising European energy. In the name of consumer protection, it continues in the pursuit of liberalisation of the European
Sceptisicm over impact of third liberalisation package by social partners
A Commission representative introduced the new package of measures to liberalise Europe's energy markets as published 19 September 2007. Important issues in this package are: ownership unbundling, cooperation of transmission
Baltic Energy Representatives call Latvian EU Energy Commissioner's plans "More Unraveling than Unbundling"Government, Company, Trade Union and Energy Regulator combine in opposition to EU energy plans for unbundling
(9 November 2007, Riga) EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs', proposal for ownership unbundling remains hotly contested including in his home country of Latvia and neighboring Estonia. At a seminar in