Nile Information System

This is a comprehensive report on the power trade framework proposed for the Nile Basin countries. The report presents a review of the institutional arrangements adopted by regional power trade organisations, by comparing and contrasting the different arrangements.

This document proposes a template for gathering information on energy from countries, and a “Manual” that explains the both the questions on the template and the information intended to be obtained using the questions.

This report proposes a standard agreement which can facilitate and standardize power trading between neighbouring countries in the Nile Basin. The agreement proposed which is designed to help in reducing the transaction costs and in developing, in each case a special agreement for similar objectives, covers among others communications, interconnection controls, payments and transacions and the resolution of conflicts among agreeing parties.

The purpose of this report is to present procedures and guidelines for data mining, screening and identification as well as templates and recommendations for processing and making public the information. The report is strongly based in experiences of data gathering and publicising information of developed regional markets. Major contents of this report include the general need for agreement and information, necessary for coordination of tasks; data templates, collection procedures and distribution of information, and the example of what published information may look like.