distribution companies in Germany. We address traditional issues in electricity sector benchmarking, such as the role of scale …

Due to recent legislation, Benchmarking in the German water and sewerage sector will be introduced as widely as …. I will define two sets of conditions. First, a useful benchmarking initiative should fulfil certain criteria outlined in … comparisons in the future. Second, a German benchmarking system should be as flexible as possible. A system which is comparable to …