Title
Electricity: The global impact of power reforms
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
January 2006
Abstract
Dozens of governments have embarked on the pathway to electricity deregulation and privatisation since the mid-1990s. It has become the accepted wisdom amongst governments and opinion leaders despite the consequent price rises and disasters that have followed in its wake: the series of blackouts that have been experienced from Buenos Aires to Auckland; the government bailouts of electricity companies that have been necessary in California and Britain; the need for electricity rationing in Brazil; and the fact that it has become too expensive for millions of people from India to South Africa.
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Publication Details
This book chapter was originally published as Beder, S, Electricity: the global impacts of power reforms, in Chavez, D (ed), Beyond the Market: The Future of Public Services, Public Services Yearbook 2005/6, TNI/Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), Amsterdam, 2006.