Overview of Regulatory Regime
The information gathered throws
some light on the status of the
development of AMS electricity
sectors. All the countries have
comprehensive legislation and
regulator y documents that
regulate the electricity industry,
but not all have implemented
fully functional grid codes.
However, these countries have
drafted or in the process of
drafting the grid codes.
While two countries have
fully liberalised their electricity
industr y, most are in the
implement ation p hase of
some form of restructuring of
traditionally Government-owned
monopolies. It is envisaged this
trend will continue to develop
further. All but one country
has established a Government
department or agency as the
electricity industry regulator. The
Energy Regulatory Commission
of Philippines is operating as a
quasi-judicial body or third party.
Only the Energy Regulator y
Commission of Thailand is an
independent regulating body.
While all generation
companies, transmission
companies and distribution
companies have to comply
with the relevant legislation/
regulatory documents/grid code
and the directives from the
regulator, a few countries do
not require consumers, and one
country does not require power
system operator to comply with
such regulatory requirements.
Another country only requires
generation companies, including
IPPs to comply. Only a few of
countries indicated that they
have clear definitions of terms
used in interconnections and in
the planning, design, operation,
especially under emergency and
system disturbance situations,
etc. There will need to be
consensus when developing
appropriate definitions of terms
that will be required for the
interconnection between the
AMS national power grids as well
as in the planning, design and
operation of APG as a whole.
Only three countries have
structures and processes
for regular review of the
relevant legislation/regulatory
documents/ grid code. The
remainder only review these
documents on an ad hoc basis
or whenever there is a need to
do so.
Proposed Principles for
Technical Harmonization
Learning from operations of
and outages suffered by large
integrated power grids in
ot