ECA NEWS

ECA has been awarded a contract to support SIDA and the Swedish Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, to develop a support programme for Liberia’s developing mini-grid sector. This assignment will build on ECA’s widely-established experience in developing mini-grid support...

ECA has been asked to provide support to Malawi’s national electricity utility, ESCOM, in the preparation and submission to the regulator (MERA) of its multi-year tariff covering the four-year control period 2018-2022. We had previously helped with a framework for...

The recently announced merger between the supply businesses of npower and SSE is in stark contrast to the emergence of much smaller suppliers including municipal energy offerings. Is the move to greater scale a correct defensive response? And how has the threat of...

ECA has been appointed by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) to document and assess the methodologies employed by EU Member States to determine the allowed revenues of gas transmission system operators. The objective is both to assemble a...

The Consumer Council for Water has commissioned ECA to analyse the financial performance of the England & Wales water companies in 2016/17. The analysis, updating an earlier ECA study, covers the current price control period (from 2015) and will include turnover,...

On behalf of a private sector developer, ECA is conducting a study to consider who benefits from new power generation in Central Africa.  

ECA are supporting Eco Ltd in the provision of technical assistance to the Government of Georgia with the development of an Energy Efficiency Law. The new law will implement the requirements of the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU) as transposed for Energy...

CCWater commissioned ECA to make an independent recommendation of what the cost of capital should be for 2020-25. The study looked at the financial markets, cost of capital decisions made in other regulated sectors, and water companies’ financial performance,...

ECA, together with WSUP Advisory and Aquaconsult, has been selected to assist and support the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company in developing its onsite sanitation and faecal sludge management market and business plan. ECA is leading the political economy assessment...

William Derbyshire and Nick Haralambopoulos have completed a capacity building workshop for staff at the Malaysian Energy Regulator. The workshop, on benchmarking productivity and the efficiency of electricity distribution companies, is part of our ongoing advice on...

ECA has been engaged to support the Green Mini-Grids Market Development Programme (Phase 2) implemented by the African Development Bank. More specifically, ECA will develop the Access to Finance component, which includes: designing a Results-Based Financing (grants)...

Agence Française de Développement assisted the Government of Ethiopia to set up a 120 MW wind farm at Ashegoda in the Tigray region in the north of the country over the period 2006-2014. ECA has been selected to carry out an ex-post evaluation of the project, applying...

ECA has teamed with Castlerock Consulting to deliver a training course on electricity tariffs to the Fiji Competition and Consumer Commission. The training is part of a larger Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded project to provide technical assistance, to the...

Standard economics begins with the assumption that we behave rationally and in our own interests. We seek to maximise utility, which is often equated with maximising monetary gain. Behavioural economists challenge this by identifying areas where observed behaviour...

ECA is extending its support to the Ministry of Mining and Energy in Serbia for the development of energy efficiency (EE) policies targeting the reduction in end-use energy consumption. Such policies include the considered design of a potential Energy Efficiency...

Under the auspices of EBRD’s Regional Energy Efficiency Programme (Plus) managed by ECA, we have been appointed together with partners BRE to support the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy to harmonise and implement a subset of its secondary legislation with the...

ECA is leading a renewable energy project in Mozambique with 2 major components; (1) Implementation of the new Feed-in Tariff (FiT) regime for on-grid renewable energy, (2) Creation of a regulatory framework for mini-grids. We will coordinate deliverables from...

This month we welcome two new members of staff to the team, Marta Chojnowska and Ester Vespasiani. Both have recently completed their Master’s degrees; Marta graduating from University College, and Ester from the London School of Economic and Political Science. We...

Because they are cheap to install, reliable, long-lived and have very low maintenance costs, night storage heaters are popular in granny-flats and with landlords in cheap rented accommodation who do not worry that they are costly to run. Electric night storage heaters...

Ray Tomkins acted as an economic expert in an international arbitration case for a Middle Eastern government. The multi billion damages claim of petroleum revenues was successfully settled under LCIA arbitration rules.

ECA is supporting the Lebanon Petroleum Administration (LPA) in the development of a Gas Development Plan. In preparation to the imminent first offshore licencing bidding round in Lebanon, we are advising on gas pricing, market structure, regulatory frameworks,...