Power Sector Reform in SubSaharan Africa

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Lists of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 14
Foreword......Page 20
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 22
1 Introduction......Page 24
Introduction......Page 29
Conceptual issues......Page 30
Concluding remarks......Page 46
Introduction......Page 49
The power sector in Côte d’Ivoire......Page 50
Reasons for power sector reform......Page 54
New institutional and regulatory structure......Page 63
Experiences from implementing reforms......Page 69
Conclusions......Page 71
Introduction......Page 73
Motivation for reforms......Page 74
Overview of the power sector prior to reforms......Page 77
Regulation and management......Page 82
Reform programme and process......Page 87
New industry structure and trading arrangements......Page 89
Distribution market......Page 96
Maintenance of system integrity/regulation......Page 97
Managing the transition......Page 101
Some key lessons and challenges......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 104
Introduction......Page 106
The energy sector......Page 108
Institutional, legal and regulatory framework......Page 112
Power sector problems......Page 119
Reform options......Page 121
The power sector reform process in Kenya......Page 125
Experiences from implementing reforms......Page 133
Lessons from experiences......Page 140
Introduction......Page 144
The Zimbabwean power system......Page 145
Power sector regulatory and institutional framework......Page 146
Reasons for power sector reforms......Page 151
Reform strategy......Page 164
Other relevant issues......Page 169
Conclusions......Page 172
Electric power resources......Page 175
Uganda electricity board’s performance – an overview......Page 177
Motivation for reform......Page 178
The reform process......Page 179
Experiences of reform implementation......Page 187
Impact of reform......Page 191
Obstacles to reform implementation......Page 194
Lessons from experience......Page 196
Historical features and existing framework......Page 199
Electricity supply and consumption......Page 200
Motivations for reform......Page 209
Process of reform......Page 211
Paths of reform......Page 214
Open competition......Page 218
Regulatory issues......Page 219
Managing the transition......Page 221
Power sector reform and rural electrification......Page 222
Energy efficiency and integrated resource planning......Page 224
Benefits and deficiencies......Page 225
Conclusion......Page 226
Assessing reform process and implementation......Page 227
Critical issues......Page 228
Lessons......Page 230
Relevance of the six-country experiences to rest of SSA......Page 238
Concluding remarks......Page 239
C......Page 240
I......Page 241
N......Page 242
P......Page 243
S......Page 244
Z......Page 245