scholarly journals The State of the Power Sector in Rwanda: A Progressive Sector With Ambitious Targets

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Bimenyimana ◽  
Godwin N. O. Asemota ◽  
Lingling Li
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Power Sector

Uttarakhand

Mapping Power ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 296-318
Author(s):  
Jonathan Balls
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
High Level ◽  
Financial Base ◽  
Breathing Room ◽  
High Share

Uttarakhand was created out of Uttar Pradesh and endowed with a substantial benefit: sole access to cheap hydro power. Low-cost power allowed the state to attract industry by cutting tariffs, providing a stable financial base, and enabling a well-functioning sector. With low tariffs, the power sector has not become an arena for populist policies despite frequent electoral shifts. However, this comfortable situation also limited the pressure to use the breathing room created by low cost power coupled with high share of industrial consumption to address long-standing loss levels in other parts of the state. As the limits of low-cost power are reached, the threat to Uttarakhand’s high-level equilibrium comes from having to turn to high-cost thermal power and stagnating industrial consumption.

Regulating China's Power Sector: Creating an Independent Regulator without Autonomy

2014 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. 452-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-min Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Agency ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Capture ◽  
Resource Reallocation ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Regulatory Capacity ◽  
Regulatory Commission

AbstractThroughout its period of economic transition, the Chinese state has readjusted its relationship with industry and developed new regulatory schemes. China's first industry-specific independent regulatory agency, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), was created in 2003. Its operation does not follow Western practice which adopts the best institutional arrangement for autonomous regulators. This article will examine the failings and regulatory capture of SERC. I argue that because the process of creating a new regulator involves resource reallocation and power redistribution, SERC has suffered both endogenous and exogenous disadvantages since its inception. The compromised institutional design, along with insufficient resources and fragmented authority, has considerably weakened SERC's regulatory capacity. Moreover, SERC was not designed as part of the reform schedule, but rather emerged later as a response to institutional necessities, which also contributes to its vulnerability. As a result, the state has exposed SERC to potential capture by both government entities and regulated enterprises.

IPPs: The Real Issues

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (4II) ◽  
pp. 811-823
Author(s):  
Anjum Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Real ◽  
Private Power ◽  
Project Risks ◽  
Costs Of Production ◽  
Electricity Tariff

Since May 1998, an important issue facing Pakistan policy-makers has been whether independent power producers (IPPs) produce expensive electricity. It is contended that IPPs’ expensive power has rendered the state utility, Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), bankrupt. It is also alleged that IPPs indulged in corruption and colluded with WAPDA officials to get their signatures on contracts which allowed procurement of expensive power by WAPDA and which it can ill afford now. This paper shifts through the rhetoric surrounding IPPs and focuses on the central issue of whether IPPs produce expensive power. If it can be established that IPPs produce cheaper power than WAPDA, then the second part of the argument that WAPDA became financially weak because of IPPs’ expensive power is destroyed. The alleged corruption issues are not discussed as they are beyond the scope of the paper. Section 1 provides a background to the establishment of the private power sector in Pakistan. Section 2 discusses various project risks faced by shareholders and lenders. Section 3 outlines the components of the electricity tariff. Section 4 traces the reasons for increase in electricity tariffs since 1994 when the Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) were signed. Section 5 shows the comparative costs of production of IPPs and WAPDA.

scholarly journals Power Sector Reforms and Performance Assessment of Power Sector Utilities of Uttar Pradesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Nagendra Kumar Maurya
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
State Power ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The State ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Load Factor ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Power Utilities ◽  
The Impact

A series of power sector reforms were undertaken by the state government aimed at introducing a set of regulatory reforms and at unbundling of what was originally an integrated State Electricity Board. The reforms aimed at segregating production, distribution and regulation functions. Ratification of the Electricity Act 2003 led to a further deepening of the reform process by dismantling monopoly in the power sector. The paper provides an overview of the impact of power sector reforms on the operational and financial performance of the power sector utilities of Uttar Pradesh. Utilising the data obtained from the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. and the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Uttar Pradesh, the paper highlights the status of transmission and distribution losses, aggregate technical and commercial losses, plant load factor, operating and financial performance of the state power utilities of Uttar Pradesh between 2002–2003 and 2015–2016 (the latest point of time for which data is available). In addition to other financial indicators, liquidity, asset management, leverage and profitability ratios have been calculated to analyse the financial performance. The paper concludes that the state power-utilities are yet to cover a long distance to become financially and commercially viable. However, the positive impact of the reform measures has been abundantly visible since the financial year 2012–2013.

Enhancing Competitiveness of Public Utilities in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
pp. 240-252
Author(s):  
Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Holding Company ◽  
The Poor

The poor performance of the state owned electricity company the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), has provided the impetus for the establishment of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). However, despite the power sector reforms in Nigeria the country has continued to face massive challenges in the generation and distribution of electricity.

Does regulation induce cost efficiency in electricity distribution utilities? Use of stochastic cost frontier analysis for the Indian states

2021 ◽  
pp. 178359172110294
Author(s):  
Amit Nandan ◽  
Hrushikesh Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
The State ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Stochastic Cost Frontier ◽  
Cost Frontier ◽  
The Cost

To overcome the macroeconomic crisis of the early 1990s, the Government of India persuaded the state governments to adopt market-oriented reforms for loss-making state public sector undertakings in general and power sector utilities in particular with an aim to limit the overall size of the public sector. This led the state governments to undertake unbundling of their vertically integrated State Electricity Boards (SEBs), establish independent regulatory bodies in the form of State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) to regulate the power sector, and allow for an active participation of private sector. Given this backdrop, the present study attempts to examine the effect of establishment of SERCs on the cost-efficiency of electricity distribution in the Indian states. Thereby, it evaluates whether the establishment of SERCs has induced efficiency gains in the electricity distribution. Estimating a Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier function, it finds that the establishment of independent regulators in various states has resulted in significant improvements in the cost-efficiency in the electricity distribution.

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