Turkish electricity distribution system operator Yesilırmak (YEDAS) DSO received “Best Employers Award” by the U.S. based consulting company Aon Hewitt.

Aon Best Employers Program measures and recognises employer excellence, anywhere in the world. By this year, the awards have been given for the 10th time. In the award ceremony, it is announced that YEDAS DSO received “Best Employers Award” among 170 companies for the year 2016. The winner of this year’s Best Employers Award YEDAS DSO was chosen as the “Best Employer” in 2015 as well.

YEDAS DSO General Manager Ridvan Akturk, said the following:

“We are aware of the fact that employee satisfaction is the basis of customer satisfaction. Within this perspective, we provide our employees every opportunity to express themselves and develop their skills. This brings us an efficient working environment consisting of competent, knowledgeable and well-equipped employees. We will continue to provide quality service by adding new projects with our positive energy and happy employees.”

About YEDAS DSO

YEDAS DSO provides qualified and sustainable electricity distribution service to 3 million customers in 5 provinces located in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey. 

The World Bank, in partnership with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), created the Global Solar Atlas which will help investors and policymakers identify potential sites for solar power generation virtually anywhere in the world.

Global Solar Atlas displays annual average solar power potential, and has the capacity to zoom into areas in great detail (with a spatial resolution of 1 km, or 0.6 of a mile). It also provides access to high resolution global and regional maps and geographic information system (GIS) data, enabling users to print poster maps and utilize the data in other applications.

According to The World Bank, this tool will help governments save millions of dollars on their own research and provide investors and solar developers with an easily accessible and uniform platform to compare resource potential between sites in one region or across multiple countries.

Riccardo Puliti, Senior Director and Head of the World Bank’s Energy & Extractives Global Practice, says, “The World Bank is seeing a surge of interest from our clients in solar power as a result of the dramatic cost decreases over the past few years. We hope that the Global Solar Atlas will help inform the crucial planning and investment decisions that will need to be taken over the next decade to shift to more sustainable forms of energy."

Source: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/01/17/new-world-bank-tool-helps-map-solar-potential

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Benchmarking Methods in the Regulation of Electricity Distribution System Operators
By: Karel Janda and Stepan Krska

University of Economics, Prague, Charles University in Prague

This paper examines the regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs) focused the Czech electricity market. It presents an international benchmarking study based on data of 15 regional DSOs including two Czech operators. The study examines the application of yardstick methods using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Based on our results, we find that the cost efficiency of each of the Czech DSOs is different, which indicates a suitability of introduction of individual efficiency factors in the regulatory process.

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