in India improved operating efficiency at these power plants. 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 generating … companies. We find that generating units in states that unbundled before the Electricity Act of 2003 experienced reductions in …

in India. The Indian electricity regulation provides an opportunity to do comparative analysis of the approaches taken by … state (provincial) regulators while fixing prices for electricity distribution. I analyse the process of price determination … for electricity distributors by the State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) in four different states. This covers …