ANARSE Communiqué on Licensing Requirements for Energy-Sector Operators
Summary: ANARSE's first public communiqué (22 January 2017), informing energy-sector operators that any activity in the sector requires a prior license, an operating right, or a public-service concession under the February 2016 decree, and setting out the award criteria for production, transmission and distribution licences. The regulator's opening compliance notice, issued three months after it became operational.
Key Findings
- The 22 January 2017 ANARSE communiqué informs electricity-sector operators that any activity in the sector requires a prior licence, operating right or public-service concession.
- ANARSE states that it is the only state entity authorized to issue these permits under the 3 February 2016 decree.
- Production-licence criteria include energy-source type, site choice, land occupation, use of public domain, energy efficiency, opportunity, installed and nominal site capacity, and the applicant's financial capacity without a state guarantee.
- Transmission-licence criteria include the operator's capacity to meet obligations in the special specifications, financial and technical capacities, and the experience and honourability of managers.
- Distribution-licence criteria include the geographic zone, power to be distributed, installation type, energy efficiency, equity in consumer treatment, socioeconomic impact and the applicant's demonstrated financial capacity.
- Any person or legal entity that began electricity-sector activities after 6 January 2016 was asked to apply to ANARSE for a temporary operating permit.
How to cite
National Energy Sector Regulatory Authority (ANARSE), 2017, ANARSE Communiqué on Licensing Requirements for Energy-Sector Operators, https://anarse.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ANAR-COM-01-001.pdf