Publication date: 2010, March
Author: University of Khartoum
Description: Electricity industry was considered a textbook natural monopoly. Accordingly, governments are the best able to manage the large amounts of capital necessary to develop the sector and bear the long time costs recovery. This dogma has been in doubt in early 1990’s and evolution of electricity industry reforms around the world started. The development of an electricity reform strategy based on the market economy that in troduces competition is of importance for providing a stable and favorable environment for investments and service quality. Drawing from international experience, this paper provides a framework and options for electricity industry reform in Sudan.
