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Nepal: Tariff Expert

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Project Title:
Support for Sustainable Energy Management and Reforms
Position:
Tariff Expert (international, 5 person-months)
Project Purpose:
The project encompasses the capacity development technical assistance (CDTA) and aims to work on reform programs on the power sector and strengthen the sector's key framework to ensure the sustainability of the sector-wide systems for hydropower development in Nepal. The project focuses on five components:
  1. Functional support to establish and implement tariff rationalization mechanisms of the Electricity Tariff Fixation Commission,
  2. Time-bound reform actions for the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to implement a financial restructuring plan,
  3. Demonstration of a public private partnership (PPP) structure based on standardized contractual document for NEA and Department of Energy Development (DOED), Ministry of Energy and other energy authorities
  4. Formation of effective small and medium size hydropower investment and development policies
  5. Commercial-oriented comprehensive corporate policies and management systems of NEA
Scope of Works:
The main tasks of the Tariff Expert are:
  • Develop principles and procedures covering (a) financial performance targets, (b) revenue requirement determination, (c) structuring tariffs toward full cost recovery and minimization of cross-subsidy, (d) targeting and delivering subsidies, and (e) incentive-based regulation with particular reference to incentivizing loss-reductions, on the international practices
  • Set up norms and methodologies for tariff setting of generation, transmission and retail supply on the international practices
  • Establish norms of power purchase agreements and cost based tariff mechanisms based on international practices
  • Develop a toolkit for tariff setting and multi-year tariff principles
  • Develop customer service standards including consumer care, complaint handing, grievance redness mechanisms.
Required Nationality:
International
Location of Assignment:
Nepal
Project Status:
Expression of Interest
Contact:
For further information please contact Mr. Nurshod Saidov:
Phone: ++49 – 9192 – 9959-22
Fax: ++49 – 9192 – 9959-10
Email: nsaidov@integration.org
Deadline for Application:
The 15th of July 2013

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