Why a regional electricity market in the GMS?
Three key factors provide the rationale for power trade in the GMS and the ultimate development of an integrated network, with its attendant economic and technical benefits:
(i) Imbalance between potential power generation resources and forecasted demand within the GMS countries;
(ii) Availability of economic and sustainable power generation resources in the resource-rich countries that justifies export; and
Proximity and peculiar congruity of the GMS countries, which make economic cross-country power interconnections and trade feasible.