Powergen added that the combination of Midlands, which has 2.4 million customers, with EME, which also has 2.4 million customers, will unite two neighbouring networks "with complementary capabilities and significant scope to realise operating efficiencies".
The problem here is even if JBL is successful, it will continually run the risk of seeing its customers sucked into the huge FLEX and Foxconn machines that are designed to run profitably at lower operating costs than JBL can present at its relatively smaller scope and scale.