"We are not 100 percent happy with the energy sector, " said Michael Leibrandt, a year 2000 project team member at the Federal Ministry of Economics in Germany said of that nation's utilities industry.

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An attractive feature of the industry's economics is the annuity-like income generated from renewals.

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