Technical Assistance to Enhance Quality of Service and Economic Regulation in Eswatini and Togo
Client: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)/USAID
Emtech was contracted by NARUC/USAID in providing technical assistance to the regulatory commissions in Eswatini and Togo to improve Quality and Service and Economic Regulation respectively.
For Eswatini, the project involved assisting the Eswatini Energy Regulatory Authority (ESERA) to review its existing Quality of Service Regulations and propose new performance benchmarks and enforcement mechanisms to improve quality of service regulation for the distribution utilities. The Technical assistance also includes the capacity building of stakeholders on the new QoS framework.
The Technical Assistance to the Togolese Regulatory Authority, ARSE involves the conduct of a gap analysis on the legal and regulatory framework for economic regulation. It also includes the development of training modules and the facilitation of a technical training workshop on regulatory accounting and revenue requirements determination for the staff of ARSE, the utilities and ministry of energy.
Technical Assistance to Develop Guidelines for Advancing Economic and Commercial Quality of Service Regulations in Africa’s Power Sector Based on the Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) for Africa
Client: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), /USAID
Emtech was contracted to develop Guidelines for advancing economic and commercial quality of service regulations in Africa’s power sector. The Guidelines outline concrete steps for countries to take to improve implementation of effective economic and quality of service regulation.
The Guideline will serve as a roadmap that regulators, utilities and policymakers in Africa should pursue to advance economic and quality of service regulations across the continent targeting specific regulatory gaps in these areas identified in the AfDB Electricity Regulatory Index. The Guidelines incorporate several case studies from the African continent to showcase successful implementation of various aspects of economic and quality of service regulation.
Trading Point Metering Assurance for the initiation and implementation of the Nigerian Transitional Electricity Market
Client: NEXANT Inc. USA
In 2013, Emtech Energy Services Ltd was contracted by NEXANT Inc. to carry out an analysis of the gap in the requirements of the electricity market for the commencement of the Transitional Electricity Market (TEM, in line with the Market Rules for the Nigerian Electricity Sector. . Reference to the Market Rules and the Grid Code were made to determine the conditions to be satisfied for TEM to start. After the assignment, the Transitional stage of the Nigerian Electricity Market (TEM) was declared in February 2015.