Energy Market Development and Regulatory Agency (EMDRA)

• Joined ERRA in 2025

• Established in 2023

Responsibilities

• Legal basis/ mandate
• The Energy Market Development and Regulatory Agency of Uzbekistan is an independent body responsible for regulating and developing competitive electricity markets. It oversees market transparency, licenses participants, sets tariffs from 2026, and enforces compliance with energy laws. The Agency also promotes investment in energy infrastructure, ensures fair competition, and has enforcement powers to investigate and penalize violations. It operates independently and plays a key role in implementing national energy policies.

• Responsibilities
• Electricity:
  ꟷ to ensure the gradual organization of competitive wholesale and retail electricity markets (hereinafter the market);;
  ꟷ to support competition in the market, ensure attractiveness of the market and balance of supply and demand;
  ꟷ to establish state control over compliance with laws that ensure equal rights and transparency for all market participants;
  ꟷ to license activities of market participants, monitoring their compliance with license conditions;
  ꟷ to approve tariffs and fees amounts for the transmission and distribution of electricity starting from 2026 and in other cases where it is necessary;
  ꟷ to approve permissible standards of technological discharges occurring in main and distribution power networks;
  ꟷ to participate in the development and implementation of long-term investment policy aimed at the increase of production volumes and creating infrastructure based on the market situation and the need for energy resources;
  ꟷ to develop mechanisms to encourage the purchase of local goods and services in construction and repair works in the field of energy.
  

• Authorities
• • Independence: Independent regulatory body that implements state policy in power market liberalisation.
• • Supervised by: Cabinet of Ministers
• • Reports to: Cabinet of Ministers.

Organisational Structure

• Internal Structure
• The Agency is governed by the Director and his deputy.
• Working Employees
• • Decision-Making Level: 2
• • Total Number of Employees: 30

• Budget
• When licensing of the power activities starts, Agency will be financed by license fees (100 %).
• Currently it is being financed partly by national budget and partly by the World Bank’s “The Innovative Carbon Resource Application for Energy Transition Project for Uzbekistan (iCRAFT), which is the first “policy crediting” program of the Bank.

Information will be available at a later stage.