Electricity sector analysis

Sector planning: Development of strategy and action plans; integrated resource planning; demand forcasting; social and environmental impacts assessment of supply options; screening and evaluating supply options; institutional development.

Sector reform: Analysis of reform process; institutional development of regulators (incl. development of regulatory tools); dedicated market niches for green electricity; third-party access (independent power producers); power balancing in market-based systems.

Thermal power engineering: Process layout; comparative analyses of technologies.

Combined heat and power production: Feasibility studies; transfer of technologies to developing countries.

Renewable electricity: Biomass technologies; wind turbine technologies; solar energy technologies; development and implementation of national programmes; evaluation of RD&D applications; identify, rank and mitigate barriers for the introduction of renewable energy generators in market-based systems; institutional development.

Tariffs: Poverty and social impact analysis; tradable certificates; power purchase agreements.

Cross-border interconnections: Comparative analysis of feasible expansions.

Selected references:

• Independent reviewer on the Strategic/Sectoral Social and Environmental Assessment of Power Development Options in the Nile Equatorial Basin. World Bank, 2004-2005.
• Energy technology catalogues used for national electricity planning. Danish Energy Authority, 2003 and 2004.
• Strategy for the World Bank`s assistance to the energy sector in Ghana. Some of the focus areas were power sector reform and cross-border electricity connections. 2003-2004.
• Green electricity for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002. The objective was to provide the venues of the Summit with electricity generated from renewable energy using green certificates.
• Capacity development on integrated resource planning in the electricity sector. Ghana 2002, Malaysia 2001, and Swaziland (2000-2002).
• Integrated gas and electricity study in the Baltic Sea Region. Electricity expert. 2000-2001.
• Renewable energy independent power producers, South Africa. Identification of barriers for the successful development of renewable energy IPPs in a market-based electricity system and means to overcome those barriers. 2000.
• Head of the Unit for Combined Heat and Power Production, Danish Energy Agency (1986-1990).