Impacts on investments, and transmission/distribution loss through power sector reforms

Nagayama, Hiroyuki

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.019

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“…For the Middle East and North Africa binary variable, there are significant coefficients for three of the six electricity regressions. One possible explanation is that the lack of electricity sector reforms in these regions, identified by Nagayama [47], contributes in part to the significant coefficients. There are similar results when using an indicator of reform in electricity sectors [48] instead of the binary variable for countries in Africa and the Middle East.…”

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“…One common factor across countries in both Africa and the Middle East has been the stage of power sector reforms. Nagayama [47] notes that reforms have proceeded in Asia and South America, but have been delayed in Africa and the Middle East. We also use a power sector reform indicator [48], with values from zero to six, to control for lagged policy reform up to 1998 more directly.…”

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The Importance of Government Effectiveness for Transitions toward Greater Electrification in Developing Countries

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2017

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Electricity is a vital factor underlying modern living standards, but there are many developing countries with low levels of electricity access and use. We seek to systematically identify the crucial elements underlying transitions toward greater electrification in developing countries. We use a cross-sectional regression approach with national-level data up to 2012 for 135 low-and middle-income countries. The paper finds that the effectiveness of governments is the most important governance attribute for encouraging the transition to increased electrification in developing countries, on average. The results add to the growing evidence on the importance of governance for development outcomes. Donors seeking to make more successful contributions to electrification may wish to target countries with more effective governments.

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The Importance of Government Effectiveness for Transitions toward Greater Electrification in Developing Countries

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2017

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“…If power sector reforms are successful, they should furnish benefits to the government through increased generation capacity (Nagayama, 2010;Victor & Heller, 2007;Zhang, Parker, & Kirkpatrick, 2008). 3 Regulatory reforms under the hybrid umbrella would simultaneously protect consumers from monopoly pricing and offer investors cost-recovering tariffs with protection from political intervention, as independent regulators would make predictable and consistent decisions to enhance the efficiency of the sector.…”

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“…Power sector reforms can reduce both technical and nontechnical losses (Nagayama, 2010;Victor & Heller, 2007;Zhang et al, 2008). Again, this argument is best seen by considering regulatory, competition, and privatizing reforms separately.…”

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Power Sector Reforms and Technical Performance: Good News from an Instrumental Variable Analysis

Urpelainen

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Liu

2017

Review of Policy Research

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Over the past three decades, various power sector reforms have overhauled the governance of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution in almost a hundred countries. Have these reforms produced benefits? Using instrumental variables, we improve upon earlier studies and demonstrate that power sector reforms enacted between 1982 and 2008 have both had large positive effects on the availability of generation capacity and reduced transmission and distribution losses. We also show that the positive effects on generation capacity are pronounced in developing countries and that hybrid reforms falling short of privatization and free competition are effective in improving generation capacity in particular. Overall, the results show that these reforms are an effective tool to remove an important constraint on economic growth. Reformas del sector de la energ ıa y el desempeño t ecnico: buenas noticias de un an alisis de variables instrumentales A lo largo de las tres d ecadas pasadas, varias reformas del sector de la energ ıa han renovado la gobernanza de la producci on de electricidad, la transmisi on y la distribuci on en casi cien pa ıses. >Han generado beneficios estas reformas? Utilizando variables instrumentales, mejoramos estudios previos y demostramos que las reformas del sector de la energ ıa puestas en marcha entre 1982 y 2008 han tenido, tanto grandes efectos positivos en la disponibilidad de la capacidad de producci on, como p erdidas reducidas de transmisi on y distribuci on. Tambi en mostramos que los efectos positivos de la capacidad de generaci on son significativos en pa ıses en v ıas de desarrollo y que las reformas h ıbridas no logran completamente la privatizaci on y la competencia libre es efectiva para mejorar la capacidad de generaci on en particular. En resumen, los resultados muestran que estas reformas son una herramienta efectiva para remover una restricci on importante para el crecimiento econ omico.PALABRAS CLAVE: sector de la energ ıa, producci on de electricidad, reforma pol ıtica, efectividad pol ıtica

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“…Instead, there is a propensity for the prices to increase in every market model. Nagayama [29] 86 countries between…”

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Investment, security of supply and sustainability in the aftermath of three decades of power sector reform

Erdoğdu¹

2014

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The last three decades have witnessed many electricity industry reform processes in more than half of the countries in the world. The reforms have aimed, inter alia, at encouraging private investments in electricity infrastructure, enhancing security of electricity supply and making power industry operate in line with the requirements of the sustainable development.Using an original panel dataset from 55 developed and developing countries covering the period from 1975 to 2010, this study aims at finding out to what extent these objectives have been materialized so far. Econometric models are used to identify the effects of electricity market liberalization on these variables. The research findings suggest that the progress toward the electricity market reform is associated with a decline in private investments in the electricity industries of developing countries, higher levels of self-sufficiency in electricity supply and lower CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

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Impacts on investments, and transmission/distribution loss through power sector reforms

Cited by 37 publications

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The Importance of Government Effectiveness for Transitions toward Greater Electrification in Developing Countries

The Importance of Government Effectiveness for Transitions toward Greater Electrification in Developing Countries

Power Sector Reforms and Technical Performance: Good News from an Instrumental Variable Analysis

Investment, security of supply and sustainability in the aftermath of three decades of power sector reform

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