Title: Iran Electricity Market Dispute Resolution Management System - ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
Start Date: 2010
End Date: 2011
Client: Iran Grid Management Company
Main Client: Iran Grid Management Company
Location: Ministry of Energy, Tehran, Iran
Scope Of Work:
• Surveying the experience of other electricity markets in the field of dispute resolution among market participants
• Examining legal position of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Iran judicial system
• Proposing a dispute resolution management system for Iran Electricity Market
Details:
Increase of interfaces level in Electricity Supply Industry due to restructuring and emerging competitive electricity markets and consequently appearing new disputes among market participants has necessitated the designing and contriving a dispute management system aimed at the settlement of disputes. Considering the existing competitive electricity markets shows that the legal authorities in those markets has tried to resolve disputes amicably by employing modern achievements of law science on alternative dispute resolution rather referring to the court. Thus, implementing a systematic mechanism based on fairness and justice is of requirements of decreasing destructive effect of disputes on total performance of electricity market.