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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...

Our study on attracting private investment in the power sector of Sub-Saharan Africa has been published! ECA collaborated with The World Bank and Cambridge University to survey 51 investors across the region. Based on survey responses, we were able to identify...

ECA has been contracted by the regulator in Jamaica to help review the business plan of the national utility (Jamaica Public Services Ltd) as part of the multi-year tariff review process.

Electricity mini-grids serve some of the poorest households in rural communities across the world, but the costs of supply can be high. The design of prices to the users can be important in helping to minimise those costs. This is the third in a series of Viewpoints...

ECA just concluded a multi year capacity building project funded by EBRD for the Albanian gas TSO, Albgaz, by conducting a 2-day online workshop on the implementation of the gas transmission tariff regulations. Over the last two days, Fred Beelitz, Scott Edmonds and...

ECA lead investment planning expert, Grigorios Varympopiotis, was invited to present and be one of the panellists in the Integrated Resource Planning for a Sustainable and Cleaner Africa Energy Future Webinar organised by Energy Exemplar. Grigorios presented the main...

The Asian Development Bank has published the final report under the independent review of Indonesia’s energy infrastructure sector prepared together with Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas). This report is based on analysis and recommendations...

The IFC has published a report written by ECA reviewing electricity tariffs and frameworks for distributed generation in six Southern African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), focused on the commercial and industrial sectors....

The Ministry of Mines and Energy in Namibia has awarded ECA a contract to prepare a new national integrated resource plan for the electricity sector. The work will use Wairoa, ECA’s power system dispatch model. Wairoa is a New Zealand Maori word meaning waterfall.

ECA is supporting the Ethiopian generation utility update their least cost development plan including forecasting demand for electricity, assessing tariff requirements and cashflow in the new investment plan and training in forecast modelling.