PURC to undergo Peer Review

PURC to undergo Peer Review
November 22, 2009
The Peer Learning Network, comprising institutions whose mandate includes the regulation of the electricity sector across Africa, aims to enhance regulatory effectiveness and impact across the continent.

PURC joined the group of African Electricity Regulators in October 2008, in a pilot initiative of the Management Programme in Infrastructure Reform and Regulation (MIR) at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

The CEOs would also hold discussions with utility companies, private power developers, consumer groups and the press and assess regulatory governance, substance and impact in Ghana.

To date the Network has undertaken reviews of electricity regulatory systems in Namibia, Uganda and Zambia.

Over the last decade, over 20 independent electricity regulatory bodies have been established across Africa with the underlying expectation to create a more enabling environment for attraction of investment into infrastructure sectors like electricity, water and telecommunications.

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