Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Uganda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Godinho ◽  
Anton Eberhard
Keyword(s):  
Power Sector ◽  
Sector Reform

Improving Electricity Access through Policy Reform

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Amadi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reform ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Reform Programme ◽  
Electricity Access ◽  
Improve Reliability

In Nigeria, an estimated 170 million people depend on less than 4,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid for economic and social needs. Since 2000 the country has embarked on an ambitious power sector reform programme, the main objective of which is to ensure adequate, available, and reliable electricity. The power sector reform adopts a neo-liberal development model that is based on the triple strategy of liberalization, commercialization, and privatization. This strategy has relied heavily on the reform of the existing legal regime of state institutions so as to attract foreign private capital to increase capacity, expand connection, and improve reliability. This chapter reviews the incompletely theorized neo-liberal assumptions in the reform policies and shows how these assumptions have undermined the efficacy of legal reform in the electricity industry and resulted in failed expectation.

Power Sector Reform: Key to Economic Growth

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
R. V. Shahi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Electricity Industry ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Electricity Bill ◽  
Tariff Structure ◽  
Transmission And Distribution

Electricity Industry has worked for over 50 years with a set framework of organisation and regulation. The growth till 1990 witnessed a pattern of doubling the capacity in energy decade except in the decade of Nineties. The pace of expansion declined sharply in last ten years. The present status of the Power Sector is far from being satisfactory. Huge transmission and distribution losses coupled with totally improper tariff structure have led to substantial gaps between cost of supply and tariff and much more so between cost of supply and revenue. De-Politiciation of tariff formulation and proper regulation of utilities was considered to be one of the first few essential requirements to set things in order. The Ministry of Power, Government of India has taken a number of important initiatives in the recent past. The Electricity Bill 2001 is perhaps the most important initiative of the Ministry of Power. The steps that have been taken now to bring about reform and restructuring of tariff, removal of imbalances, elimination of gaps between cost of supply and revenue would strengthen the industry commercially and financially.

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