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On 22 October 2020, the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) approved the allowed revenue methodology for the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO), which was subsequently published in the Greek Government Gazette on 26 October 2020. The...

ECA, together with BRE and Karanovic/Partners, is extending support previously provided to North Macedonia by the REEP Plus programme for the drafting and adoption of the Law on Energy Efficiency, in preparing relevant secondary legislation, compliant with the...

ECA has been appointed by the Energy Community Secretariat to assess the potential and viability of different technologies for producing, transporting and deploying hydrogen in the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community, with a focus on the gas, electricity and...

The European Commission published its EU Hydrogen Strategy on 8 July 2020, setting out a vision of a significant role for hydrogen in achieving decarbonisation by 2050, recognising the difficulties of decarbonising some sectors purely through electrification and RES....

This month, ECA welcomes Alex Schmid to the team. Alex is a London School of Economics graduate with an MSc in Local Economic Development, and a BSc in Geography with Economics. Having grown up in Perth, Australia and Munich, Germany, he is fluent in both English and...

ECA has been appointed by the World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness to conduct a review of carbon pricing instruments (CPIs) in the energy sector in the ASEAN region and the potential for enhanced cooperation between them.   Share this article:

The Asian Development Bank has released a new report on options for renewable energy subsidy mechanisms in Indonesia. The report draws extensively on analysis and recommendations developed by ECA with PT Castlerock. Taking geothermal projects as an example, the report...

ECA has been engaged by the IED and the GMG Facility Kenya, on behalf of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, to update the mini-grid regulations that ECA drafted in 2017. The assignment will also include activities to facilitate more rapid regulatory...

ECA, together with BRE, is furthering support previously provided to BA-Fed by the REEP Plus programme of the EBRD, in harmonising a subset of its legislation with the requirements of the Energy Performance in Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives. This is the...

ECA has been engaged by the World Bank to deepen its understanding of viable models for providing non-utility/non-piped water services to urban areas of cities in developing countries across the world. The assignment will examine the roles of technological innovations...

We are delighted to announce that David Williams will be joining the ECA Board of Directors as of September 2020. David has been with ECA since 2013 and has helped grow our energy efficiency and low carbon policy streams. As Director he will lead our decarbonisation...

Nick Haralambopoulos is one of the course faculty team members delivering accredited training on natural gas tariff setting to staff from regulatory authorities in the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) network. Nick’s part of the course (7-8 and 10...

To help achieve climate change targets, Greece will be closing its lignite power plants by 2023. This plan relies on the expected development of gas-fired generation to partly substitute for the closures. In this Insight, we consider how the closure of the lignite...

We are hiring. ECA is looking to expand our growing team of electricity market economists. The successful candidate would support our team of electricity market specialists advising policymakers, regulators and investors on commercial, economic and strategic aspects...

Two decades ago international financing institutions began encouraging competitive electricity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Over that period, while North and South America, India, Europe, Australasia and parts of South East Asia have embraced competitive power...

ECA is supporting the Global LPG Partnership in assessing LPG demand in the greater Kinshasa region and assess the economic benefit of switching to LPG as a fuel source. We will apply our econometric energy demand modelling techniques and our cost benefit analysis...

The Energy Community Secretariat and The EBRD have published a set of Policy Guidelines for Centralised Energy Efficiency Financing Mechanisms authored by ECA with the support of the regulatory assistance project (RAP). The Guidelines seek to advise Contracting...

ECA has been engaged by the World Bank to conduct a study on the various issues and topics concerning water and sanitation tariffs. The results of this study will be a series of Background Papers on topics such as principles of tariff regulation, water and sanitatio...

The World Bank has published ECA’s Cost‑of‑Service and Tariff Design Study for Lebanon. The study provides a background of the electricity sector in Lebanon and estimates the current and future costs of the sector in order to inform reform plans that are needed to...

ECA has been contracted by the EBRD to assist the Armenian authorities improve their enabling legislative and regulatory framework for small-scale renewable energy in the commercial sector drawing on our extensive international experience from similar assignments...

GIZ have awarded ECA with a contract that covers two key working packages under the Energy Solutions For Displacement Settings project that seeks to address the lack of sustainable energy supply in refugee hosting areas in Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia. ECA will be...