The main priority for the Democratic Republic of Congo's power sector is to increase access to electricity. The … Democratic Republic of Congo is a large country with 10 million households of which 1.6 million have access to electricity. This … makes it the third largest population in the world without access to electricity. The report explores the current state of …

Hydro resources are provided by nature. The exploitation of such resources can generate significant economic rent to … the owners. In the past, governments have usually claimed ownership of hydroelectric resources and passed on the rents to … the restructuring of the electric power sector in many countries, a more explicit consideration of hydroelectric rents is …

private companies take over state power utilities, the demand for profit has stifled those concerns. Currently the private … the future. The projects are located in five countries where the power sector is at different stages of maturity and …

This technical paper compares and contrasts the governance and regulation of "new style" power pools in Australia …, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These trading markets in electricity commodities and services are explored in …

despite the rapid expansion of the power sector during this period, by 1990, only about 44 percent of the more than 3 ….3 billion people living in rural areas had access to grid-based electricity. Given the constraints of high capital costs and …