Greater visibility of investment will help us to meet demand

摘要

For an industry that is facing an uncertain outlook for workload, energy regulator Ofgem's announcement that £22 billion will be spent upgrading the country's power networks may have provided a crumb of comfort. This was followed by the publication of the government's High Level Output Specification for rail, committing to a further £9.4bn of investment in the UK's rail network for five years from 2014. While neither announcement will help companies working in the infrastructure sectortoday to tackle declining workloads, they do provide some certainty of opportunity on the horizon. This visibility is one of the benefits of both energy and rait being regulated industries, with clear cycles of investment. For other parts of the industry, having an understanding of what is coming down the tine is less easy.