At the 15th ERRA Summer School in Budapest, Ranjit Bharvirkar spoke about the regulatory challenges faced by developing countries and explored the governance and regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and India. The Summer School is a week-long course organized annually by the Energy Regulators’ Regional Association, an organization dedicated to supporting regulators, with members in 30 countries. This year’s program welcomed 40 participants from 18 countries.

These framework slides draw upon forthcoming edited volume entitled Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity Distribution in India’s States.

Editors:

• Sunila Kale (professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
• Navroz Dubash (senior fellow, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, India)
• Ranjit Bharvirkar (India program director, RAP, USA)

Authors of State Case Studies:

• Bihar – Zakaria Siddiqui, research assistant, Australian National University; From Gloom to Boom: Bihar’s Electricity Sector
• Delhi – Megha Kaladharan, legal consultant, Trilegal; Wielding Power in the Capital: The Case of the Delhi Electricity Distribution Sector
• Gujarat – Siddharth Sareen, postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen; What Powers Success on the Ground? The Gradual Reform of Electricity Distribution in Gujarat
• Jharkhand – Rohit Chandra, doctoral student, Harvard Kennedy School; Extractive States and Layered Conflict: The Case of Jharkhand’s Electricity Sector
• Maharashtra – Kalpana Dixit, assistant professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Tuljapur campus; Political Economy of Electricity Distribution in Maharashtra
• Madhya Pradesh – Ashwini Swain, executive director, Center for Energy, Environment & Resources; Poverty Amidst Plenty: Limits of Generation Bias and State Allocation in Madhya Pradesh’s Power Sector
• Odisha – Mahaprajna Nayak, doctoral student, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata and Mrigakshi Das, Doctoral Student, Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar; (paper pending)
• Punjab – Ashwini Swain, executive director, Center for Energy, Environment & Resources; Protecting Power: The Politics of Partial Reforms in Punjab’s Electricity Sector
• Rajasthan – Siddharth Sareen, postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen; Politics, Procurement, Bail-Out and Buy-In: Woes and Ways of Rajasthan’s Distribution Sector
• Tamil Nadu – K. Vishnu Mohan Rao, citizen consumer and civic action group; Tamil Nadu Electricity Sector: The Subsidy Narrative (1989 – 2016)
• Uttar Pradesh – Jonathan Balls, postdoctoral fellow, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne; Stalled Reform in a Politically Competitive State: Uttar Pradesh’s Electricity Distribution Sector
• Uttarakhand – Jonathan Balls, postdoctoral fellow, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne; Uttarakhand: The Golden Combination of Cheap Energy and a Large Industrial Base
• West Bengal – Elizabeth Chatterjee, postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago; Insulated Wires: The Precarious Rise of West Bengal’s Power Sector