The assignment supports the Government of Montserrat in strengthening the institutional and regulatory framework for the electricity sector, with a focus on establishing an effective and sustainable utility regulatory framework. The work covers assessment of the existing legal, institutional, operational, and financial environment; benchmarking against comparable regulators; and development of an institutional model, governance arrangements, regulatory procedures, and implementation roadmap.

K&M reviewed Montserrat’s electricity-sector policies, laws, institutional arrangements, utility performance, tariff framework, and plans for private-sector participation and renewable energy development; conducted regional and international regulatory benchmarking; and developed recommendations for the regulator’s governance, funding, staffing, tariff-setting, licensing, compliance, and consumer-protection functions. K&M also supported preparation of the regulatory and legal framework, stakeholder consultations, capacity building, implementation planning, and final recommendations.