Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247209 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Queen’s Economics Department Working Paper No. 1468
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper takes on a novel perspective to the overloading of distribution substations by considering the common-pool characteristics of electric infrastructure capacity. Using firmand substation-level data from a sample of Nepalese firms, the results provide evidence of common-pool resource (CPR) problems across substations' ownership boundaries: firms with captive substations experience fewer and shorter unplanned outages than firms connected to shared substations. Based on these findings, private investments in captive substations emerge as a coping mechanism against unreliable electricity supply. Lastly, an appraisal framework for such investments is developed and used to quantify the economic benefits to Nepal's economy.
Subjects: 
Opportunity cost of power outages
electricity reliability
common-pool resource
electricity
JEL: 
Q41
D61
H4
L43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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