Poverty And Environmental Impacts Of Electricity Price Reforms In Montenegro
... If utility wants to recover the cost of the electricity service it is necessary, either adjust the tariff or subsidized by GOSL to recover the cost. However, if the utility adjusts the tariff to recover the cost that will negatively affect the welfare of poor households that consume electricity (Silva et al., 2007) then the option is providing the subsidiary to the utility. To provide the subsidiary it is important to identify the real financial requirement in monetary terms. ...
Sri Lanka has monopolistic electricity market dominated by Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) in all three aspects of electricity i.e. Generation, transmission and distribution. The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) is the regulatory authority for the electricity sector. PUCSL has informed CEB for establishment of an effective and transparent mechanism to carry out Bulk Supply Transaction Account (BSTA) for implementation of a transparent Tariff Regime. However still CEB has not agreed to establish the BSTA. Since this is an issue where both parties are arguing advantages and disadvantages it was studied qualitatively to figure out the reasons and solution. Hence the objective of the study is to reason out the importance of BSTA and to identify the obstacles of establishing BSTA. We interviewed Director General PUCSL, Transmission Licensee and Distribution licensees of CEB, Lanka electricity Company officials, Donor Agencies and independent experts. It was revealed that the reasons highlighted by the advantages of having BSTA are improvement of efficiency, monitoring by the management on functions and sound financial situation of utility and the counter arguments made by Senior officials of CEB are at present CEB has separate accounting system for transactions, threat of unbundling, no legal provision to do it. However, under the existing legal framework there is no requirement to establish separate physical bank accounts for each licensee of CEB, considering the reasons explained by both parties it can be concluded that implementation of BSTA is important to improve the effective and transparent financial system in the CEB. But it is necessary to have clear legal provisions. However, BSTA is an integral part of tariff methodology. Hence it is necessary to have good tariff methodology for the sector to ensure the financial viability of the utilities.
Uluslararası literatürde üzerinde birçok çalışma yapılmış olan enerji yoksulluğu kavramı, Türkiye’de de son dönemde dikkat çekmeye başlamıştır. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmada hanehalkının karşı karşıya kaldığı enerji yoksulluğunun bir ayağını oluşturan elektrik enerjisine ait enerji yoksulluğu profili Türkiye için çizilmeye çalışılmış bununla birlikte genel olarak Türkiye’deki elektrik enerjisi sektörünün durumu da incelenmiştir. Literatürde enerji yoksulluğunu ölçme yöntemlerinden miktar ve gelirin oranı yaklaşımları ile Türk hanehalklarının enerji yoksulluğu profili analiz edilmeye çalışılarak, Türkiye için mevcut durumun ne olduğu ele alınmıştır. Bu sayede enerji yoksulluğu ile mücadele için politika üreticilerine ve enerji yoksulluğu üzerinde çalışma yapmak isteyenlere katkı sağlanması çalışmanın amacını oluşturmaktadır.
The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to describe how environmental security issues grow rapidly in the convergence with other aspects of life in modern world, and, secondly, to furnish an example showing how the various elements of economy correlate with environmental security.
The poverty penalty refers to the relatively higher cost shouldered by the poor, when compared to the non-poor, in their participation in certain markets. By trying to further develop this concept, this paper clarifies some of the subtle and more direct ways through which the poor could be marginalised in the market system. A brief review of the business and economics literature suggests that there are different possible causes behind various forms of the poverty penalty, and hence distinct ways to address them, depending on its form, the nature of the market under analysis, the specific country context, the characteristics of the poor themselves and the prevalence of market failures among other factors. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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