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Transmission Pricing Methodologies for use in the Pan-Arab Electricity Market

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dc.contributor.authorKamh, Mohamed Zakaria
dc.contributor.authorAlhaddad, Waleed Tayseer
dc.contributor.authorBowman, Doug
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T16:40:53Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T16:40:53Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-22
dc.description.abstractThe Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 2017 sets the vision and governance framework for establishing a Pan-Arab Electricity Market (PAEM). The signing of the MOU officially launched a five-stage development plan. The World Bank has engaged with the League of Arab States (LAS) to support establishing the envisaged PAEM and enhance the enabling environment for advancement of trade in the region. In this regard, detailed market rules and a formal transmission pricing regime have not yet been developed for the approval of the Arab Ministerial Council for Electricity (AMCE). Few, if any, PAEM countries have unbundled their domestic electricity markets and introduced competition via a fair and open transmission access and pricing regime with multiple buyers and sellers. For this and other reasons, cross-border electricity trade among the countries in the Pan Arab region has been limited, and only 5–7 percent of cross-border interconnection capacity is utilized. Electricity trade in the Pan-Arab region is generally negotiated between governments on a country-to-country basis. Transmission pricing is for the most part ignored (trade takes place only when adequate transmission capacity is available), except in cases when third-party transit/ wheeling is involved, e.g., Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. In such cases, the involved countries enter into a wheeling arrangement for each individual trade, an inefficient and time-consuming process and a deterrent to cross-border electricity trade. Historically, countries have been paid for providing wheeling service, but the pricing formula for wheeling has not been transparent or published. A transparent and uniform approach to pricing third party wheeling transactions is needed to eliminate one of the many barriers to electricity trade in the region. The purpose of this report is twofold: 1. Provide background material on what constitutes mainstream regulatory practice with respect to transmission tariff design to inform and guide the Pan-Arab Advisory and Regulatory Committee (ARC), the Arab Transmission System Operators (TSOs) Committee, and PAEM stakeholders on transmission tariff design as the PAEM evolves. 2. Propose a simple transmission tariff design for pricing wheeling transactions between PAEM members in the near term. The recommended wheeling tariff design is an option among others than can be used by the Pan Arab ARC , when established, in its review and approval of transmission tariffs applied to trade in the PAEM.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099072124082035121/P1745041896f3b0261ba5c134ea628f9140
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41921
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41921
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectPAEM
dc.subjectTRANSMISSION PRICING
dc.subjectELECTRICITY
dc.subjectSDG 7
dc.titleTransmission Pricing Methodologies for use in the Pan-Arab Electricity Marketen
dc.typeReport
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleTransmission Pricing Methodologies for use in the Pan-Arab Electricity Market
okr.date.disclosure2024-07-22
okr.date.lastmodified2024-07-22T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099072124082035121/P1745041896f3b0261ba5c134ea628f9140
okr.guid099072124082035121
okr.identifier.docmidP174504-896f3bbc-f60c-4d26-ba5c-34ea628f9140
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41921
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34367114
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34367114
okr.identifier.report192646
okr.import.id4877
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099072124082035121/pdf/P1745041896f3b0261ba5c134ea628f9140.pdfen
okr.region.geographicalMiddle East
okr.region.geographicalNorth Africa
okr.sectorOther Energy and Extractives
okr.themeTrade,Mitigation,Access to Energy,Infrastructure Finance,Energy,Economic Policy,Trade Policy,Energy Policies & Reform,Environment and Natural Resource Management,Finance for Development,Finance,Regional Integration,Private Sector Development,Climate change
okr.topicEnergy::Electric Power
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Payment Systems & Infrastructure
okr.unitInfra MNA Energy 1 (IMNE1)
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