🚧 Website Undergoing Major Upgrade 🚧 We are currently implementing a major upgrade to enhance your experience. Please bear with us as we continue to work on improvements. Thank you for your patience!
In this consultation document, the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) provides a rationale for a National Alert Warning System (NAWS) in The Bahamas and sets out the Draft Regulations for a NAWS. URCA invites and welcomes written submissions and comments from interested parties, including members of the public and
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) is pleased to publish its Draft Annual Plan and Budget for 2023 (URCA/2023). This document outlines: A brief review of URCA’s achievements in 2022; URCA’s focus areas and key priorities for 2023; URCA’s key projects for 2023, including its planned consultation schedule for
This Guidance Note provides procedural and substantive guidance for Licensees on the reduction in the Comms Licence Fee under the Communications Act (Amendment to Schedule 3) Order, 2022 (“the Order”). URCA invites responses on this Consultation Document from all stakeholders and interested parties. Responses must be submitted to URCA by
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) issues this Consultation Document on the proposed definition and interpretation of a “major outage” for Public Electricity Suppliers and Authorized Public Electricity Suppliers that will apply to the electricity sector in The Bahamas. URCA invites and welcomes written submissions and comments from interested
The aim of these Guidelines is therefore to advance the development of the regulatory framework governing the ES and in so doing bring greater clarity, transparency, and consistency to the methodology and factors that URCA will consider in order to arrive at appropriate fines that are proportionate to the breaches.
URCA’s Small Scale Renewable Generation (SSRG) Commercial System Application is available below for download.
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) has today published the Initial Responses received to its Preliminary Determination Retail Cellular Mobile Market Review and Assessment under Section 39(1) and (2) of the Communications Act, 2009 (ECS 01/2022). In keeping with Section 1.3 of the Preliminary Determination, URCA invites interested parties
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) issued a Preliminary Determination on its Retail Cellular Mobile Market Review and Assessment in accordance with Section 39(1) of the Communications Act, 2009. The exercise fulfills the Regulator’s statutory mandate to complete periodic reviews of the country’s mobile sector and is the first
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) is pleased to publish its Draft Annual Plan and Budget for 2022 (URCA/2022). This document outlines: A brief review of URCA’s achievements in 2021: URCA’s focus areas and key priorities for 2022; URCA’s key projects for 2022, including its planned consultation schedule for
