Energy Regulation in Africa

Part I. Political Economy of Energy Regulation in Africa.- Chapter 1. The dynamics of energy regulation in Africa (Ishmael Ackah).- Chapter 2. Africa's Transition to Cleaner Energy: Regulatory imperatives and Governance Dynamics (Sidique Gawusu).- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Electricity Sector Regulation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis (Crispin Bobio).- Chapter 4. The political economy of the next wave of power sector reforms in Africa: evidence from Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Namibia (Christine Juta).- Chapter 5. Legal and Regulatory Pathways for Sub-Saharan Africa's Energy Access and Energy Transition Agenda (Ivie Ehanmo).- Chapter 6. Policy framework and regulations to promote clean energy and energy transition in ECOWAS countries (Charly Gatete).- Chapter 7. Effective regulation and the energy transition in Zambia (Naa Adjekai Adjei).- Chapter 8. The rationale of Economic Regulations: Theoretical Review (Haliru Dikko).- Chapter 9. Power Sector Regulation in Africa in an Energy Transition Era (Pauline Anaman).- Chapter 10. Role and Challenges of The African Energy Regulator in The Midst of Global Economic Storm (Benjamin Ashitey Armah).- Chapter 11. Regulating Public utilities within a crisis's situation in Africa (Etutu Mawondo Shalman).- Chapter 12. The Electricity Tariff and Utility Performance: Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and Namibia Electricity Market (Jeffrey Baiden).- Part II. Regional Electricity Markets Development.- Chapter 13. Major challenges in Africa in the development of competitive electricity markets. An analysis of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market (Charly Gatete).- Chapter 14. Regional Power Trade in Africa: The Different Institutional and Regulatory Models of African Power Pools (Mohamed A. Eltahir Elabbas).- Chapter 15. An outlook on a Future-Proof Regulated Cross-Border Electricity Market in Africa (Oghosa Erhahon).- Chapter 16. Cross-border power trading model for SSA; Challenges

Ishmael Ackah is an energy expert and executive secretary of Ghana's Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC). He chairs the Legal and Regulatory Committee of Ghana's Electricity Market Oversight Panel and has worked with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project managed by Deloitte. He is an adjunct lecturer, researcher, and consultant with a Ph.D. in Energy Economics from the University of Portsmouth-UK.

Charly Gatete, a seasoned energy economist, holds a Ph.D. in Energy Economics from the University of Paris Sarclay (France) and another in Energy from 2iE (Burkina Faso). He is an economist expert at ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA), contributing to ECOWAS's Regional Electricity Market. Previously, he managed some renewable energy projects in Africa, and he was an energy expert for UNDP and an assistant professor and researcher at Thomas Sankara University.