ECA NEWS

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.

Lockdown measures in countries affected by the novel coronavirus have become near-universal. The economic impacts are devastating, particularly for the poorest. Lost jobs, eroded savings and continued restrictions mean many will continue to suffer even after the...

ECA has been selected to develop template and guidelines to be used in regional water supply and PPP scheme in water supply in Indonesia. This work follows on previous work where we developed the overall framework for regional water supply and PPP scheme for water....

Following adoption of the new primary Law on Energy Efficiency, North Macedonia is developing its end-use energy efficiency policy in compliance with Article 7 of Energy Efficiency Directive for Contracting Parties to the Energy Community.  ECA has been contracted by...

ECA Director Peter Robinson, and Senior Consultant Tatiana Tumenggung, recently made a presentation in the World Bank’s Indonesia Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) Series. The presentation focused on the results and findings from ECA’s...

ECA was commissioned by the Gambian Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to deliver a two week-long training course covering policies, regulations and socio- economic issues associated with the development of green mini-grids. The training is part of a larger African...

ECA was recently engaged by the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) to investigate the approaches used in 20 of its Member Organisations for regulating the revenue of electricity transmission and distribution system operators. This was a wide-ranging review...

ECA has been appointed by the Greek energy regulator, RAE, to review and update the allowed revenue methodology for the Greek electricity distribution network to ensure that it is ‘fit for purpose’, that is, it operates as intended, it is internally consistent and...

ECA has been contracted by the Energy Community Secretariat to provide capacity building training for the Ukrainian authorities on transposition of Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive and design of an Energy Efficiency Obligation scheme. The work builds on...

Conventional load forecasting techniques start from the premise that the current demand of customers connected to the power grid is accurately reflected by their levels of electricity consumption. Unfortunately, in many developing countries load shedding is the norm...

ECA was very pleased to lead a workshop on Centralised Energy Efficiency Financing Mechanisms for the Energy Community’s Energy Efficiency Coordination Group (EECG) in Vienna. The workshop discussed the Policy Guidelines currently being developed by ECA on the subject...

ECA is assisting the Ministry of Energy in Mongolia, under Asian Development Bank funding, to develop a strategy to deliver clean heating to peri-urban (ger) areas in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Mongolia’s harsh winter climate, with temperatures regularly below -20C,...

With the Brexit transition phase due to end on 31st December 2020, what will happen to energy trades with Ireland and Continental Europe. Electricity, in particular, relies on a common set of rules and agreements for cross-border trade to continue. If nothing is in...