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This paper examines the opportunities available and the conditions needed for the deregulation of the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), with particular reference to the Sultanate of Oman. The paper highlights the general issues of regulation required to encourage competition in the ESI. After that, the discussion focuses on regulation methods in the privatized ESI by describing the regulators control through price caps setting for regulatees, the conduct regulation process, the rate of return regulation setting, and the spot market (the pool) contract. Finally, the prospects of restructuring and privatizing the ESI in the Sultanate of Oman are examined by reviewing the current structure of the industry and government objectives in deregulation of the electricity sector as well as the regulation framework.

AbstractThe slowing in the growth of electricity consumption in the early 1980s was accompanied by a significant increase in real unit costs in all Australian states. This article examines the economic issues facing government‐owned electricity supply authorities under four headings: policy objectives including the question of whether the authorities should act as agencies to redistribute incomes; the estimation of future demand, especially the need to relate future demand estimates to likely changes in costs; supply aspects, including internal efficiency, cost of capital and size and reliability of generating plant; and pricing policies, particularly the need for time‐of‐use tariffs to improve capacity factors.

Bibliography: leaves 90-93. ; The primary objective of this dissertation is to describe and analyse the proposals from the different stakeholders since government called for the restructuring of the electricity supply industry (ESI) in South Africa. Secondly, this will also identify areas where there is convergence and divergence between the positions of these stakeholders. Finally, the dissertation will attempt to understand the reasons for the shift in the positions of the stakeholders.

Africa has many electricity supply problems with major causes being natural causes (drought), oil price shock, system disruption by conflict, and low investment in electricity generation. To solve the problem, many countries adopted several reforms. However, the reforms failed to bring solutions. Electricity sector privatisation has received great criticism. Individual firms and households resorted to own private power generation due to electricity supply inadequacy from the public grid supply, as is the feature of many African countries. This paper focuses on sub-Saran Africa's electricity supply inadequacy. It provides the economic implications of power outages.

Bibliography: leaves 94-98. ; In a post-apartheid South Africa, the electricity supply industry (ESI) will be under pressure to make up the backlog in electricity provision to poor households. Simultaneously, it will have to protect its financial viability in order to maintain a low-cost electricity supply to support a growing economy. This study analyses the current structure and governance of the ESI and proposes a significant restructuring to enable these challenges to be met. It is argued that the highly fragmented distribution sector of the ESI should be rationalised, and that the industry should remain in the public sector. Questions around the governance and regulation of the ESI are identified as critical to the future performance of the industry. By drawing on international experience, a distinction is made between the roles of politics and technical expertise in the governance of the ESL On the basis of this distinction, a new governance model is developed, which is based on a contract-plan mechanism, but which relies on the role of stakeholders and an independent regulator. In this way, this thesis attempts to establish in the governance system an appropriate balance between the equity concerns of a new democratic government, and the efficiency needs of a developing economy.