ECA NEWS

In the lead up to COP26, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) published an ECA-authored report: Powering the Pacific, A Guide To Investing In Renewable Electricity Generation In The Pacific. Many people in the Pacific lack access to electricity and more than 40...

ECA has been appointed by the Greek energy regulator, RAE, to assist with the development of a framework for the treatment of unregulated services offered by the gas transmission system operator and the development of ring-fencing guidelines for reporting on the...

We are pleased to welcome Iro Sala to ECA’s Athens office. Iro is an Analyst, who holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, plus a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from King’s College London. She will initially work on international case...

Regulators often view the inflation of the Regulatory Asset Base (RAB), and the related choice of a real versus nominal Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), as modelling technicalities to be buried deep within spreadsheets. READ ECA'S INSIGHT HERE.

We are delighted to have been declared winners of cfi’s Best Economics Advisory Team 2021. We would like to thank our clients who have nominated us for this award and look forward to continue supporting our clients in economic, regulatory and policy issues in the...

We welcome 3 new team members to our London office. Will Wright, who has over 7 years’ experience as a research economist and economic and strategy consultant, focusing on decarbonising energy systems covering system planning, government and corporate strategy; Alex...

The World Bank has contracted ECA to analyse strategic options for reforming Lao PDR's power market, to improve its financial performance. This includes development of new policy, regulations, and institutional frameworks across a range of topics, including tariff...

This month we welcome Marina Charalambous to ECA. She is an economist with 7 years’ experience in regulatory economics in the energy sector and is also experienced in providing commercial and regulatory due diligence for energy infrastructure transactions. Marina has...

In 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among the 17 goals, SDG 7 targets access to affordable and sustainable energy for all while SDG 13 calls for tackling climate change. READ ECA's INSIGHT HERE.   Share...

ECA has been contracted by the World Bank to assist the Bank in its support to the Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini for the preparation of its National Electrification Strategy (NES). The approach will be based on comprehensive GIS mapping and least-cost...

ECA is supporting the World Bank and Eskom in South Africa on the retirement and repurposing of 4 coal fired power plants.   Share this article:

ECA and E4tech (an ERM Group company) completed a study on the potential for using hydrogen in the Energy Community Contracting Parties (CPs), commissioned by the Energy Community Secretariat (ECS). The study comprises four parts (links from the ECS website): an...

ECA supported by partners Eco have been contracted by the EBRD to undertake a market assessment for the introduction of Ecodesign regulations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The work forms part of the EBRD's Regional Energy Efficiency Programme (REEP) Plus for the Western...

EBRD has contracted ECA to lead this assignment to support the Government of Uzbekistan develop its policy and regulatory framework for small-scale renewable energy.   Share this article:

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are on track of becoming an integral component of electricity markets around the world. Although investments for grid scale BESS are still at relatively low levels of US$3 billion per year, they are expected to rise substantially...

ECA’s Managing Director, Fred Beelitz, yesterday presented the lessons learned from applying the power market modelling software PLEXOS to the Israeli power market. You can see his presentation HERE.   Share this article:

Raising tariffs to cost recovery levels is often considered a prerequisite of infrastructure sector reforms. While immediate tariff increases are often publicly unacceptable and politically infeasible, case studies across the power and water sectors provide evidence...

We have been contracted by the World Bank to review the current IBT water tariff structure in two South African municipalities, eThekwini and Cape Town. The objective is to simulate the application of Ramsey pricing principles to optimise the current IBT structure and...

The Greek energy regulator, RAE, has appointed ECA to review and revise the allowed revenue methodology for electricity transmission. The aim is to better align the methodology with that recently developed (also by ECA) for electricity distribution in Greece and...

Ireland’s Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications have published a new consultation on the design of Ireland’s Energy Efficiency Obligation Scheme (EEOS) and its role in achieving Ireland’s 2030 targets under the European Union’s Energy Efficiency...

On 25 February 2021, ECA’s Nick Haralambopoulos and David Williams presented at the first of three webinars jointly organised by the European Union’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the Energy Community Secretariat (ECS) on the future of...