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As more utility markets are deregulated and competition is introduced, there is an increasing need to understand how the planning methods used under monopoly have to change to take the new deregulated environment into account. Although this might seem relatively trivial, it has been a major problem for a large number of utilities wich have continued using the same planning approaches that they used when they were monopolies. In this paper, we first describe the environment which, under monopoly conditions, gave rise to the use of mainly operational research methods for planning.