As the UK government's latest consultation on its ambitious Electricity Market Reform (EMR) draws to a close, power market players are calling for a swift implementation of the rules to avoid any further retrenchment in power trading and investment activity.

"EMR has caused a hiatus in the market. We don't want that hiatus," says Mary Teuton, London-based EMR project manager at utility firm RWE.

She says her company is supportive of the major EMR proposals and wants to see them implemented as