纳米比亚电力分配部门财务绩效和可持续性的决定因素

IF 3.8 3区经济学 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS

Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI:10.1016/j.jup.2025.102008

Hilkka Soondaha Etuna Aimwata , Tafirenyika Sunde

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摘要

本研究通过对中北部地区电力分销商（CENORED）的混合方法案例分析，考察了纳米比亚配电部门财务绩效和财务可持续性的驱动因素。在权变理论的指导下，它整合了计量经济模型和定性见解，以了解运营能力和外部约束如何影响效用结果。关键的预测因素包括计量质量、员工能力、机构信任和社会经济压力因素，如贫困和失业。研究表明，内部的改进取决于当地的实际情况。报告建议针对特定地区进行关税改革、改善治理和有针对性的基础设施投资，以增强脆弱政治经济体的公用事业抵御能力。

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Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector

This study examines the drivers of financial performance and financial sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector using a mixed-methods case analysis of Central North Regional Electricity Distributor (CENORED). Guided by contingency theory, it integrates econometric modelling and qualitative insights to understand how operational capabilities and external constraints shape utility outcomes. Key predictors include metering quality, staff competence, institutional trust, and socioeconomic stressors such as poverty and unemployment. The study reveals that internal improvements are contingent on local realities. It recommends region-specific tariff reforms, improved governance, and targeted infrastructure investment to enhance utility resilience in fragile political economies.

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Utilities Policy ENERGY & FUELS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

CiteScore

6.80

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

66 days

期刊介绍： Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services. Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.