In the Dark: How Much Do Power Sector Distortions Cost South Asia?
By Fan Zhang
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development. Some 255 million people—more than a quarter of the world’s
off-grid population—live in South Asia, and millions of households and firms
that are connected experience frequent and long hours of blackouts.
Inefficiencies originating in every link of the electricity supply chain contribute
significantly to the power deficit. Three types of distortions lead to most of the
inefficiencies: institutional distortions caused by state ownership and weak
governance; regulatory distortions resulting from price regulation, subsidies,
and cross-subsidies; and social distortions (externalities) causing excessive
environmental and health damages from energy use.
Using a common analytical framework and covering all stages of power supply,
In the Dark identifies and estimates how policy-induced distortions have
affected South Asian economies. The book introduces two innovations. First, it
goes beyond fiscal costs, evaluating the impact of distortions from a welfare
perspective by measuring the impact on consumer wellbeing, producer surplus,
and environmental costs. And second, the book adopts a broader definition of the
sector that covers the entire power supply chain, including upstream fuel supply
and downstream access and reliability.
The book finds that the full cost of distortions in the power sector is far greater
than previously estimated based on fiscal cost alone: The estimated total
economic cost is 4†“7 percent of the gross domestic product in Bangladesh, India,
and Pakistan. Some of the largest costs are upstream and downstream.
Few other reforms could quickly yield the huge economic gains that power
sector reform would produce. By expanding access to electricity and improving
the quality of supply, power sector reform would also directly benefit poor
households. The highest payoffs are likely to come from institutional reforms,
expansion of reliable access, and the appropriate pricing of carbon and local air
pollution emissions.
Fan Zhang
Dr. Fan (Aaron) Zhang PhD received the B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2005 and 2008 respectively), and his Ph.D from the University of Bristol (2012). He is currently a Research Fellow in the Visual Information Laboratory at the University of Bristol, working on video compression and immersive video processing. His research interests include perceptual video compression, video quality assessment and immersive video formats. Aaron has published over 30 academic papers and has contributed to two books previous books on video compression. His work on super-resolution-based video compression, has contributed to international standardization processes and he was a co-winner of the 2017 IEEE Grand Challenge on Video Compression.
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