VIS was commissioned by Tetra Tech, USAID’s contractor implementing the multiyear PCA project, to implement several subprojects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, focused on electricity market reviews and reforms, electricity regulation, development of tariff methodologies and estimation of tariffs, and capacity building of electricity companies and institutional stakeholders.
In Tajikistan, VIS worked closely with the electricity regulator AMS and regulated companies in the generation, transmission and distribution sector, to develop cost-of-service and tariff setting methodologies for generation, transmission, distribution, and end-users. A full tariff ‘dry-run’ was conducted to operationalize the methodologies, that included extensive data collection from the regulated companies, forming assumptions where data was lacking, development of custom models to calculate tariffs for each of the regulated sectors, and estimation of tariffs by sector and end-user tariffs, by customer class, for the 5 year regulatory period. VIS was involved in extensive capacity building and training of all stakeholders, through the delivery of formal cost of service and tariff setting workshops and informal advisory sessions and discussions, with stakeholders in Tajikistan.