Power sector reforms: developing countries perspectives

Since last few decades many developed and developing countries have tried the deregulation in different sectors. For developing countries like India, the task of power sector unbundling becomes more critical due to large gap between generation and peak demand, lack of resources, insufficient transmission network, less efficient distribution, lack of implementing newer technology faster, uncertainty in revenue returns, heavy social diversity etc. On the other side, in India telecom sector deregulation has been initiated and it has given positive signs till now. While experiment of Orissa has failed in case of power sector deregulation. The problem more or less remains same for developing countries. In this paper we have tried to discuss basic frame work and problems for initializing deregulation in power sector and the necessity of creating regional and national data base. We have tried to show the information needed to be compiled. Also, the need of effective reforms and restructuring process and new transition models for deregulation has been identified in this paper.