Achieving universal access to electricity is one of the most important goals set for the energy sector by governments … in the developing world. Electricity alone is not sufficient to spur economic growth, but it is certainly necessary …. Access to electricity is particularly crucial to human development, as certain basic activities-such as lighting …

"The author first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring …, although the technology of electricity production and delivery make a reliable transmission network a necessary condition for … an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law …

. Conclusions with implications for theory and policy …

"This paper first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring …, although the technology of electricity production and delivery make a reliable transmission network a necessary condition for … an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law …

likely to be more successful in the electricity sector than in the water sector because the correlation between consumption … and income is much stronger in the case of electricity than water. Moreover, IBT structures in electricity tend to be much …

In the second half of the 1980s, several electricity companies in developed countries incorporated the automation of …, in particular in electricity distribution companies, are described and analyzed in this report. …

(SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents … into this category. SPSP provision of networked services appears to be significantly higher for electricity than for water … delivering water supply or electricity. SPSPs take a variety of organizational forms, both for-profit and non-profit. As such …