National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)

USAID/Kosovo has a buy-in to a Washington-held Cooperative Agreement (CA) with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) to support the Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) in Kosovo. This support takes place through partnership and peer-to-peer exchanges between ERO and U.S. regulatory commissions with the objective of facilitating the exchange of information, data, and best practices among regulators.

NARUC works with the ERO board members and staff to further their knowledge of best practices in the effective operation of a regulatory commission and its day-to-day management. This is achieved through activities that promote sound commercial and regulatory practices in a market-based environment, as well as professional interactions among all stakeholders in Kosovo’s energy sector. The most recent partnership work included development of ERO’s processes for internal communication and the external communication strategy.

United States Energy Association (USEA)

A buy-in to a Washington-held cooperative agreement with the United States Energy Association (USEA) aims to enable Kosovo’s participation in the “Energy Technology & Governance Program.”

Through this partnership program implemented by the USEA, USAID seeks to support the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) management in particular and Kosovo’s energy sector in general, with a flexible resource for training, exchanges, and technical assistance in a variety of utility management areas.  These include generation control to meet demand, developing high-level revitalization reports for the power plants, as well as review of the new energy tariffs and their impact on KEK Generation. This mechanism was utilized to provide KEK with tools to assess the Kosovo A power plant damages from the hydrogen unit explosion in June 2014 as well as a winter 2014-2015 economic modelling of electricity supply options.

Partners: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and US Energy Association (USEA)

Geographic Target: Kosovo

Project Duration: 2006 - 2019   

Contact: Edmond Shyti