The global outlook series on Utilities provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report provides a quick primer on the industry’s structure, and its segments. Global market discussions are lined up with brief summarizations of up-to-date noteworthy issues and trends in each of the identified market segments. The reader stands to gain actionable insights into the US market with discussion in this section covering key sectors, such as, Wind Energy Utilities, Water Utilities, and Gas & Electric Utilities. Punctuated with 9 data rich tables and pictorial representations for easier understanding, the discussion in this section highlights lurking challenges in the form of regulatory concerns, and the implication of deregulation of water supply, the ingress of newer, and powerful players with multinational profiles. A crisply worded outlook additionally summarizes the market’s future. Other briefly abstracted markets designed to offer the reader a prelude to regional-level dynamics include Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, UK, China, India, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, Middle East and Africa. The report recapitulates the recent mergers, acquisitions, and other select strategic corporate developments in addition to providing an indexed, easy-to-refer, fact-finder directory listing the addresses, and contact details of 407 companies worldwide.