About power and energy utilities

The EBRD’s main objectives in the power sector are to:

• improve the investment climate and allow the development of energy systems functioning on market principles
• improve efficiency in conversion, transportation, distribution and consumption of energy as well as the quality of energy services
• improve environmental performance, including supporting actions to address the climate change issue
• improve the safety of nuclear power production

The Bank’s Power and Energy Utilities Team is the largest sector team operating within the region.  The team comprise 22 professionals, including experts working in Warsaw, Bucharest and Almaty.   The members of the Power and Energy Utilities Team have extensive experience in the sector, having worked in investment, commercial and development banks, political risk insurers and power companies

Futher information

• Transition Report 2001: Improving Efficiency in Energy Conversion and Use
• Competition in the Power Sectors of Transition Economies
• The Energy Intensity of Transition Countries
• Liberalisation of the Russian Power Sector
• Power Sector Regulatory Reform in Transition Economies: Progress and Lessons Learnt
• The Power Sector in EBRD's Countries of Operation  (0.3Mb)
• Making the most of Eastern Promise, Enlargement Europe