05.07.2009
The process of replacing a monopolistic system of electric utility suppliers with competing sellers, allowing individual retail customers to choose their supplier but still receive delivery over the power lines of the local utility. It includes the reconfiguration of vertically-integrated electric utilities.
Installations and systems for the transmission, supply, transformation, distribution, sale and metering of electricity, at any voltage, including electric poles and underground or aboveground conductors, pipeline used for the conveyance of underground or aboveground conductors as well as accessories and equipment installed or connected thereto, electrical wires, transformation stations, various boxes for the distribution of electricity and all the connections thereto as well as aboveground and underground connections to houses and to other consumption facilities
The different electricity sectors in Israel are residential, public and commercial, agriculture, industrial, water pumping, East Jerusalem and PA