ECA NEWS

ECA took part in the MacMillan Cancer Support’s ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ on 29 September, raising over £150 for MacMillan's worthy charity. There were a lot of fantastic cakes baked by our staff, which contributed to sugar rushes around the office once...

As part of what now has become an annual tradition, ECA staff spent a weekend away, this year trying their hand at rock climbing at Harrison’s Rock in Kent. The weekend followed ECA’s 20th birthday party, starting with a country walk on Saturday evening and a rock...

The Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) recently published a report it commissioned from ECA to help inform the debate on the cost of capital in Ofwat’s next price review (PR19), which will set the prices that the England and Wales water companies can charge for the...

ECA has been contracted by the UK’s Consumer Council for Water to provide a training course to a selection of its local consumer advocates and board members. The course will cover essential background on the necessary skills to review water company financial...

ECA has been selected to support Afghanistan’s Central PPP Authority (CPA) in drafting an Operations Manual, marking a further stage in ECA’s support to Afghanistan’s evolving PPP framework which previously included drafting the governing regulation, developing pilot...

After finalising earlier in the year our comprehensive analysis of the regulatory requirements for mini-grids in Kenya, we have now been contracted by GIZ to assist the Energy Regulatory Commission to round off this work by drafting the formal legal Regulation for...

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 Environment and Spatial Planning in Kosovo to finalise a subset of its secondary legislation and,...

Mines have the potential to transform a country’s power sector, but often do not connect to the national grid because of the risks this creates. To prevent this opportunity being lost, Governments need to intervene and directly target these risks. READ ECA VIEWPOINT...

ECA has been asked to advise the Regulator’s Market Monitoring Unit strategy for reporting on and detecting potential for abuse in the new I-SEM market in which a gross pool market is being replaced by voluntary day ahead and intraday markets and a new balancing...

ECA and its consortium partners from E Co Ltd are supporting the Ministry of Economy in Montenegro in the transposition of European Union Ecodesign regulations. The work will assist via a market readiness assessment, legal support for drafting regulations, plus...

ECA is working with Kurrent Technologies of Kenya in an assignment to support Kenya’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and Energy Regulatory Commission with a review of the petroleum supply chain, focusing on the petroleum pricing formulae. The review will involve...

We have been contracted by the World Bank to prepare a comprehensive investment prospectus for Kenya’s electricity sector. The purpose of the prospectus is to identify all investment needs for the sector, from large-scale generation and transmission, to off-grid and...

The European Target Model for the electricity market emphasises market coupling – to bring cross-border competition – and a liquid day ahead market (DAM) to set a reference price for trading. READ ECA VIEWPOINT HERE

ECA will be assisting DFID by analysing the efficiency of different aid-supported programs for providing electricity through solar-home-systems (SHS) to unelectrified rural households in Tanzania. The work will compare the different implementation and business models...

The Consumer Council for Water has contracted ECA to conduct an analysis of the financial performance of the England & Wales water companies. The analysis, covering the current price control period (from 2015), will include turnover, profits, dividends, and...

ECA has been commissioned by DFID to evaluate the financial and socio-economic impact of removing the taxes and tariffs on household solar systems and improved cookstoves in Malawi. As part of this study, ECA will be proposing an advocacy and marketing strategy to...

ECA has been contracted by IFC to assist Papua New Guinea Power Ltd in preparing rules for the installation and connection of distributed solar PV. This will include defining technical connection standards, advising on commercial issues and setting out the application...

ECA has been asked by the Energy Community to prepare detailed rules for trading on and operation of the IDM being set up in Ukraine as it seeks to implement the EU Target Model for electricity markets. The key beneficiaries will be the Regulator, the TSO and the...

ECA has been awarded a contract with the Energy Regulation Board in Zambia to prepare a comprehensive cost-of-service electricity tariff study. The work also entails the preparation of long-term investment plans for generation and transmission. Zambia is one of the...

As part of a project to design three mini-grids for the Rural Electrification Authority of Kenya, ECA has been subcontracted by TTA to assess the financial and economic attractiveness of the proposed electrification projects under different subsidy scenarios.