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Antmann, Pedro

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Uruguayan mechanical engineer graduated in 1979. Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., USA, working in the areas of institutional restructuring, regulation, tariffs and management of utilities (including incorporation of IT applications). Since September 2008 he was member of project teams in more than 50 projects in the 6 regions where the Bank develops operations.  16 years (1979-1995) in the Uruguayan state-owned vertically integrated electricity company (UTE), in the areas of thermal power generation (operation of existing plants and planning and commissioning of new ones), transmission, national control center, international power exchanges, distribution and retail. He left the company in 1995 being the General Manager. 3 years (1995-1997) in the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines, initially as Director of the National Board of Energy and later as deputy Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines, in charge of energy. He prepared a bill defining a new regulatory framework for the electricity sector and conducted the process for incorporation of natural gas from Argentina (regulatory framework, issuance of concessions to private agents). 3 years (1998-2000) in the French water and sanitation company Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux as International Manager, in charge of operations in the affiliate company serving 3 million customers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 8 years (2000-2008) as partner and Senior Consultant in Mercados Energy Markets International, a consultancy company specialized in institutional restructuring, regulation and management of the energy sector. He conducted projects in more than 40 countries in Latin America, Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East, South Asia and East Asia Pacific in the fields of design and implementation of new regulatory frameworks, tariff setting for network industries, management of utilities (including incorporation of IT applications), rural electrification, benchmarking studies for electricity companies.

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    Independent Power Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Five Key Countries
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2016-04-08) Eberhard, Anton; Gratwick, Katharine; Morella, Elvira; Antmann, Pedro
    Inadequate electricity services pose a major impediment to reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Simply put, Africa does not have enough power. Despite the abundant low-carbon and low-cost energy resources available to Sub-Saharan Africa, the region’s entire installed electricity capacity, at a little over 80 GW, is equivalent to that of the Republic of Korea. Looking ahead, Sub-Saharan Africa will need to ramp-up its power generation capacity substantially. The investment needed to meet this goal largely exceeds African countries’ already stretched public finances. Increasing private investment is critical to help expand and improve electricity supply. Historically, most private sector finance has been channeled through privately financed independent power projects (IPP), supported by nonrecourse or limited recourse loans, with long-term power purchase agreements with the state utility or another off-taker. Between 1990 and 2014, IPPs have spread across Sub-Saharan Africa and are now present in 17 countries. Currently, there are 125 IPPs, with an overall installed capacity of 10.7 GW and investments of $24.6 billion. However, private investment could be much greater and less concentrated. South Africa alone accounts for 67 IPPs, 4.3 GW of capacity and $14.4 billion of investments; the remaining projects are concentrated in a handful of countries. The objective of this study is to evaluate the experience of IPPs and identify lessons that can help African countries attract more and better private investment. At the core of this analysis is a reflection on whether IPPs have in fact benefited Sub-Saharan Africa, and how they might be improved. The analysis is based primarily on in depth case studies, carried out in five countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, which not only have the most numerous but also among the most extensive experience with IPPs.
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    Republic of Armenia : Power Sector Tariff Study
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013-06) Kochnakyan, Artur; Balabanyan, Ani; Antmann, Pedro; Laderchi, Caterina Ruggeri; Olivier, Anne; Pierce, Lauren; Hankinson, Denzel
    Armenia's energy sector has achieved a level of electricity reliability, service quality and efficiency of sector operations that stands out among countries participating in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Much of this can be attributed to a decade of regulatory reform including a long-standing commitment to cost-recovery tariffs. The study is structured as follows: section one provides definitions of the key terms used and a background on the current tariff setting process in Armenia. Section two indicates how far tariffs have departed from cost-recovery levels and what costs have not been covered as a result. Section three describes how new investments will affect the average cost of service and the average residential tariff. Section four proposes a marginal cost-based tariff structure and explains why this differs from the current tariff structure. Section five discusses the poverty and social impact of tariff increases needed to cover new investments in 2021. Section six identifies options for subsidization and mitigating rate shock that will help transition to higher, marginal cost-based tariffs. Finally, section seven summarizes conclusions and recommendations of the analysis.
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    Reducing Technical and Non-Technical Losses in the Power Sector
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009-07) Antmann, Pedro
    This document reviews experience with efforts in developing countries by private as well as state-owned electricity companies to reduce total losses in transmission and distribution and provides examples of sustainable reductions.