Economic Consulting Associates2014-03-312014-03-312010-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17504Developing countries are increasingly pursuing and benefitting from regional power system integration (RPSI) as an important strategy to help provide reliable, affordable electricity to their economies and citizens. Increased electricity cooperation and trade between countries can enhance energy security, bring economies-of-scale in investments, facilitate financing, enable greater renewable energy penetration, and allow synergistic sharing of complementary resources. This briefing note draws from the experiences of RPSI schemes around the world to present a set of findings to help address these challenges. It is based on case studies of 12 RPSI projects and how they are dealing with key aspects of RPSI, such as: (i) finding the right level of integration; (ii) optimizing investment on a regional basis; (iii) appropriate regional institutions (iv) technical and regulatory harmonization; (v) power sector reform and integration (vi) the role of donor agencies (vii) reducing emissions through RPSI; and (viii) RPSI and renewable energy.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOAPPROACHAUCTIONAUCTIONSAVAILABILITYAVAILABLE CAPACITYAVERAGE TARIFFBALANCEBORDER TRADECOMMERCIAL ELECTRICITYCOMPETITION IN GENERATIONCONCESSIONCONCESSION CONTRACTSCONCESSIONSCONTRACT PRICESCOST OF ENERGYDEREGULATIONDIESELDISPATCH OF GENERATIONDISTRIBUTION CHARGESDISTRIBUTION COMPANIESDISTRIBUTION SYSTEMDOMESTIC DEMANDDOMESTIC ENERGYDOMESTIC MARKETECONOMIC CRISISECONOMIC GROWTHELECTRIC ENERGYELECTRIC POWERELECTRIC POWER GENERATIONELECTRIC SYSTEMELECTRICAL SYSTEMELECTRICITYELECTRICITY BILLELECTRICITY CAPACITYELECTRICITY COMPANYELECTRICITY CONSUMPTIONELECTRICITY DEMANDELECTRICITY DEMAND GROWTHELECTRICITY EXPORTSELECTRICITY GENERATIONELECTRICITY GENERATORSELECTRICITY GROWTHELECTRICITY IMPORTERSELECTRICITY INDICATORSELECTRICITY LAWELECTRICITY MARKET ADMINISTRATIONELECTRICITY MARKETSELECTRICITY PRICESELECTRICITY SECTORELECTRICITY SUPPLYELECTRICITY SYSTEMELECTRICITY SYSTEMSELECTRICITY TARIFFSELECTRICITY TRADEELECTRICITY UTILITYELECTRIFICATIONEND USERSENERGY CONSUMPTIONENERGY CRISISENERGY DEFICITENERGY DEFICITSENERGY DEMANDENERGY EXPORTSENERGY MARKETENERGY NEEDSENERGY OUTLOOKENERGY POLICIESENERGY PRICESENERGY PROJECTSENERGY RATIONINGENERGY RESEARCHENERGY RESOURCESENERGY SECTORENERGY SHORTAGEENERGY SUPPLYENERGY TRADEENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITSENVIRONMENTAL GROUPSENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONEXPORTSFIXED COSTSFOREIGN DEBTFUELFUEL TYPEGAS EXPORTSGAS RESERVESGAS RESOURCESGENERATION CAPACITYGENERATION COSTSGROWTH RATESHYDRO GENERATIONHYDRO PROJECTHYDROPOWERHYDROPOWER GENERATIONHYDROPOWER PLANTIMPORT CAPACITYINCOMEINFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTSINTERNATIONAL ENERGYINTERNATIONAL MARKETSMARGINAL COSTSMARKET RULESNATURAL GASNATURAL GAS CONSUMPTIONNATURAL GAS MARKETNATURAL GAS SUPPLYNET IMPORTSOILOIL COMPANYOPEN ACCESSPEAK DEMANDPEAK LOADPETROLEUMPIPELINEPIPELINE PROJECTSPOWERPOWER CAPACITYPOWER COMPANIESPOWER CONTRACTSPOWER DISTRIBUTIONPOWER ENGINEERINGPOWER FLOWSPOWER POOLPOWER PURCHASEPOWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTSPOWER PURCHASE CONTRACTSPOWER SECTORPOWER SHORTAGESPOWER SYSTEMPOWER TRADEPOWER TRADINGPOWER TRANSMISSIONPOWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMPUBLIC ASSETSPUBLIC DEBTPUBLIC SECTORRAINFALLREGIONAL INFRASTRUCTUREREGIONAL POWER SYSTEMREGIONAL POWER TRADERESERVE MARGINRESERVOIRSRESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERSRETAIL TARIFFSRETAIL UTILITIESROUTESSPOT MARKETSURPLUS CAPACITYSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTTARIFF REVISIONSTHERMAL CAPACITYTHERMAL PLANTSTHERMAL POWERTHERMAL POWER PLANTSTRANSMISSIONTRANSMISSION ASSETSTRANSMISSION CAPACITYTRANSMISSION COSTSTRANSMISSION FACILITIESTRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURETRANSMISSION LINETRANSMISSION LINESTRANSMISSION SYSTEMTRANSMISSION SYSTEMSUTILITIESVEHICLESVOLTAGEWHOLESALE ELECTRICITYWHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETWHOLESALE MARKETWHOLESALE PRICEWORLD ENERGYWORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK10.1596/17504