|A1.3 Impairments, bill collection rates, and cash collected ................................................................... 71|
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|A1.4 Capital cost estimates ..................................................................................................................... 72|
|A1.5 Procedures and assumptions applied to account for sector structure .......................................... 74|
|A1.6 Assumptions used in the overstaffing analysis ............................................................................... 76|
|Annex 2: Country references, meta-data, and assumptions ...................................................................... 80|
|Annex 3: Installed capacity data ................................................................................................................. 84|
|Annex 4: Data on existing assets used for capex estimates ....................................................................... 87|
|Annex 5: Power purchase data ................................................................................................................... 90|
|Annex 6: Dispatch, sales, and T&D loss data .............................................................................................. 92|
|Annex 7: Quality of service data ................................................................................................................. 94|
|Annex 8: Multiyear results .......................................................................................................................... 95|
|References ................................................................................................................................................ 100|
|**Tables**|
|Table 1: Utility financial viability ladder: a simplified taxonomy ................................................................ 10|
|Table 2: Typology of losses ......................................................................................................................... 12|
|Table 3: Summary of reference year for analysis ....................................................................................... 18|
|Table 4: Available SAIDI and SAIFI data ...................................................................................................... 26|
|Table 5: Average tariff by consumer category (constant 2014 U.S. dollars per kWh billed) ...................... 33|
|Table 6: Revenues and costs, constant 2014 US$ per kWh billed .............................................................. 34|
|Table 7: Quasi-fiscal deficits under current performance in the reference year ....................................... 35|
|Table 8: Quasi-fiscal deficits under benchmark performance .................................................................... 38|
|Table 9: Breakdown of hidden costs (percentage of current GDP) ............................................................ 42|
|Table 10: Analysis of staffing levels ............................................................................................................ 47|
|Table 11: Simplified analysis of cost savings from switching from diesel to HFO based generation ......... 51|
|Table 12: Annual average spot prices of liquid fuels .................................................................................. 56|
|Table 13: Impacts of falling oil prices .......................................................................................................... 57|
|Table 14: Fuel cost savings at different prices of Brent (US$/barrel), savings as percent of GDP ............. 58|
|Table 15: QFD impact at various reductions in availability of hydropower plants, when replaced with<br>emergency power at a cost of US$0.20 per kWh purchased ..................................................................... 60|
|Table 16: QFD impact at various increments of devaluation against the U.S. dollar ................................. 62|
|Table 17: QFD at different real discount rates (% of current GDP) ............................................................ 62|
|Table A1.1: Description of financial data collected and assumptions applied ........................................... 70|
|Table A1.2: Assumptions about generation parameters ............................................................................ 72|
|Table A1.3: Hydropower parameter assumptions ...................................................................................... 73|
|Table A1.4: Country-specific hydropower parameter estimates ................................................................ 73|
|Table A1.5: Assumptions on T&D cost estimates ....................................................................................... 73|
|Table A1.6: Base assumptions applied for operation and maintenance staff in generation ..................... 78|
|Table A1.7: Clusters in SSA .......................................................................................................................... 78|
|Table A1.8: Clusters in Latin America used to identify reference values for customers per employee ..... 78|
|Table A1.9: Utilities used for reference values ........................................................................................... 79|
|Table A2: Country references, meta-data, and assumptions ..................................................................... 80|
|Table A3.1: Installed capacity and other parameters in MW in 2014 ........................................................ 84|
|Table A3.2: Installed capacity and other parameters – in the reference year or latest year with available<br>data ............................................................................................................................................................. 85|

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