Transcript The Power Privatization Initiatives and the Role of ADB

ELECTRICITY GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE AND REGIONAL
ELECTRICITY MARKET DEVLOPMENT
Nikolai Kravtsov
Public Foundation «Youstin»
(Consumer Association)
Washington, USA
April, 2010
Public Foundation «Youstin»
(Consumer Association)IN”
 Non governmental, non for profit organization
established in 2002
 Active in the field of the consumer rights protection on
receiving of good quality of energy supply and
communal services
 Analyse and assessment of the legislative documentations
in these areas
 Preparation and delivering of the proposals on legislation
and implementation improvement
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CASAREM – Central Asian and South Asian
Regional Electricity Market Development
THE 4th CASAREM Conference, August 2008
(Islamabad, Pakistan) – approved:
• To promote electricity export from Kyrgyzstan and
Tajikistan with the amount of 5 billion kWh/year,
(Kyrgyzstan -2 billion kWh/year);
• The length of the concessive period is 25-30 years.
ROUTE OF ELECTRIC ITY TRANSMISSION ACCORDING TO
CASA 1000 PROJECT
Financing of the Project CASA-1000
(preliminary arrangement, according the WB
Report № АВ 3686)
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR
RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
$50 mln.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ASSOCIATION
$200 mln.
ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK (to be
confirmed)
$125 mln.
Other IFIs (to be confirmed)
$325 mln.
TOTAL
ADB?
$700 mln.
Defined main risks of CASA-1000 Project
(Report № АВ 3686 of the World Bank)
-
Generation of the electricity;
The partner option and payment for energy;
Determination of export price and tariff;
War and political (civil) instability in the Project
Areas(Afghanistan and North-Western
Pakistan).
 Absence of the open processes of the
decision making:
― Сonference in Pakistan, August 2008
― Internal country discussions
• Absence of the alignment of export with
National Programme of Energy Development
up to 2008-2012 and Strategy of the Fuel
Energy Complex up to 2025;
Recommendations
 Public dissemination and discussion
― of draft law about ratification of the agreement on
CASAREM project;
― open parliamentary and public hearings on the project;
 Elimination of the civil society well-grounded doubts
by the government and management bodies
responsible for the project decision taken;
 Suppoting proportionate information review on mass
media, including analyse, well-reasoned conclusions
and proposals;
 Transparency of the credit agreement concluded on the
project with a financing bank;
 Guarantee for access to the information about the
results of CASAREM (CASA 1000) project realization
CSOs concerns on the CASAREM Project
1.
Ensuring Security of the Supply of the Internal
Market of Electricity:
-
Openness and transparency
Regulatory Body involvement in determination of the
export price and development of Tariff methodology
Price of the Electricity which covers all the costs
related generation, transmission and costs of
loan;
3. Regulation and Management of water resources
of Vaksh and Naryn Rivers will not bring the
interstate conflicts with neighboring countries.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND
ATTENTION!
NIKOLAI KRAVTSOV
Head of Public Society Unit “YOUSTIN”
Kyrgyz Republic