Energy Regulatory Mechanism and Coordination Across Sectors
Article from: OGEL 2 (2007), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Introduction
This paper was written as part of a larger project on economic reform for the Asian Development Bank. It focuses on energy regulation and uses the experience of the regulation of electricity, the only sector so far to have independent regulatory authorities. It tries to evaluate effectiveness of regulatory agencies, weaknesses in their functioning that Regulatory Commissions must attend to, the shortcomings in government functioning at central and state levels in performing their duties and in relation to Regulatory Agencies, deficiencies that need to be corrected in the law and ...