
commercial initiative, such as an oce or
manufacturing plant; or a hospital or multi-
unit development of commercial oces or
retail outlets.
Multi-utility services
companies (MUSCos)
A MUSCo provides all the energy-related
services of an ESCo, but also provides
telecoms and/or water services for a site.
As successful examples of such companies
(such as Thameswey Energy – Case Study
10.04) show, this model allows councils
to provide an accelerated programme
of activities to meet sustainability and
economic/development objectives that
could not be achieved as successfully
through the model of council service
provision, and activities usually adopted ...