Power's Promise

by World Bank (PRD); Lampietti, Julian A.

• ISBN13: 9780821359006
• ISBN10: 0821359002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: World Bank

Summary

This study examines the fiscal, efficiency, social, and environmental impact of power sector reforms in seven countries in Europe and central Asia (covering Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Poland). It includes a CD-ROM containing a pdf of this publication in Russian, plus pdfs of English and Russian versions of the following related titles: i) Utility pricing and the poor: lessons from Armenia; ii) Coping with the cold: heating strategies for eastern Europe and central Asia's urban poor; and iii) Revisiting reform in the energy sector: lessons from Georgia.

Table of Contents

The promise of reform	p. 1
Getting the utilities off the books	p. 9
Creating more efficient companies	p. 17
Maintaining power to the power	p. 27
Local versus global environmental benefits	p. 41
Overview of the reform process in eight ECA countries	p. 49
Proceeds from privatization of electric utility companies	p. 53
Tariff losses, commercial and collection losses, a share of total losses	p. 55
Fiscal balance and electricity sector financial deficit (million USD and share of GDP)	p. 57
Efficiency indicators	p. 59
More on the methodology for estimating health effects	p. 63
Base emission factors	p. 65
More on factors leading to low contribution of power sector toward health damages	p. 67
Changes in generation mix in the past decade	p. 69
Proposed energy issues to be addressed and sample questions in LSMS/HBS surveys	p. 71
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