States to be asked to sanction combined utility investigation

Wednesday 28th December 2011, 1:00PM GMT.

Public Services minister Deputy Bernard Flouquet hopes that kerbside recycling will be up and running by 2014.

DEPUTIES will be asked to approve plans to investigate the benefits of merging Guernsey Water and Guernsey Electricity.

The Public Services Department will ask the January States sitting to agree that there is potential in a combined utilities proposal.

‘A number of synergies and efficiencies could be anticipated through an amalgamation between the (merged) Guernsey Water business and Guernsey Electricity, and … additional investigation into this possibility should be conducted,’ PSD minister Bernard Flouquet (pictured) said in the most recent Billet d’Etat.

The idea was mooted earlier this year when both Guernsey Electricity managing director Alan Bates, and director of water services Andrew Redhead backed the move.

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Gez

December 28, 2011 at 2:30 pm

Easier to sell one company than two ??
there again i was always taught that
electric and water don’t mix

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A.J.

December 28, 2011 at 2:36 pm

Surely everyone is aware of the dangers of mixing Electricity with Water ?

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