Private Participation in the Electricity Sector-Recent Trends
Author: Ada Karina Izaguirre Date: 9/1/1998 (PDF, 200KB)
Drawing on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, this Note reviews private electricity projects that reached financial closure between 1990 and 1997. The Note looks at patterns across regions and in types of private participation. The review identifies four underlying trends: a regional and national concentration of projects, a higher concentration of investment in generation than in transmission and distribution, a dominance of greenfield projects and divestitures compared with management and operations contracts, and differing regional approaches to private participation.