We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state...

This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and electricity production by public and private power plants in Asia. Eight selected Asia countries are grouped into ASEAN countries and non-ASEAN countries. Both linear and nonlinear estimations are used to analyze the relationships...

This report looks at how investors have responded to the need to internalise investment risk in power generation and how these responses have affected the organisation of the power sector and technology choices. This study looks at several cases of volatile prices in IEA countries’ electricity...