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2019年3月,国家能源局颁布的关于推进现货市场建设工作的征求意见稿,代表着中国朝电力市场改革迈进了重要的一步。基于中国国情和多年的国际经验,我们为该意见稿提出几点建议,提议主要围绕在区域市场,基于成本的调度,市场监测,发电补偿,分布式能源参与市场等几大主题。… View Summary +
The National Energy Administration’s (NEA) March 2019 draft policy statement, Advancing Electricity Spot Market Implementation, represents an important indicator of the direction of China’s electricity markets. Here, RAP makes recommendations for improving the draft. Key recommendations address regional markets, cost-based dispatch, market… View Summary +
我们很高兴有机会就最近发布的中国可再生能源配额政策的“第二次征求意见稿”发表建议。基于对该草案的理解,以及我们在RPS和配额政策方面的长期国际经验,并对中国可再生能源政策设计和电力市场改革的持续参与。我们提出一些初步看法,与前一版草案的意见保持一致,此外还给出了一些新的建议。… View Summary +
In joint comments on the recently released “Second Consultation Draft” of a renewable energy quota policy in China, RAP joins the Energy Foundation China and Center for Resource Solutions to suggest areas for increased emphasis, clarification, and policy improvements. Our views… View Summary +
Guangdong’s proposed electricity market rules represent an important step forward. Over time, the policies will help Guangdong and the China Southern Grid (CSG) region move toward a more efficient, lower-emissions, lower-cost, and more reliable power system. It will also help lead… View Summary +
This report, the first of three volumes of Next-Generation Performance-Based Regulation: Emphasizing Utility Performance to Unleash Power Sector Innovation, examines the concept of performance-based regulation (PBR) and how it can provide a framework to connect goals, targets, and measures to… View Summary +
This report, the second of three volumes of Next-Generation Performance-Based Regulation: Emphasizing Utility Performance to Unleash Power Sector Innovation, focuses on best practices for design, development, and implementation of performance-based regulation mechanisms. It begins by laying the groundwork for understanding… View Summary +
This report, the final of three volumes of Next-Generation Performance-Based Regulation: Emphasizing Utility Performance to Unleash Power Sector Innovation, focuses on how performance-based regulation (PBR) can be used to navigate an era of rapid technological change in the power sector. View Summary +
This paper was written to assist the Public Service Commission of Arkansas as it seeks to remove barriers to entry for aggregators of distributed energy resources (DERs), encourage customer participation—the key to the success of DERs —and incentivize utility cooperation… View Summary +
Electricity use by non-residential customers accounts for nearly two-thirds of California’s total consumption. Many of these customers are interested in adopting distributed energy resources, and many have access to sophisticated energy management and load control technologies. These customers could therefore… View Summary +
Performance-based regulation (PBR) enables regulators to reform 100-year-old regulatory structures to unleash innovations within 21st century power systems. Our current electric system is built upon an old regulatory paradigm that ensured safe and reliable electricity at reasonable prices from capital-intensive… View Summary +
电力行业改革和碳市场建立,这两个政策进程从设计到执行都有着紧密的联系。在缺乏相互协调的情况下,各自设定的政策目标可能会面临重重挑战,并限制两个政策实际作用效果。这两个进程之间的价格信号传导被视为最为关键的联系之一,而现行的调度机制可能是制约碳市场促进电力行业低碳化的障碍。… View Summary +
The Chinese government is preparing to launch a national emission trading scheme (for carbon) in 2017, two years after it began a major effort to reform its power sector. To be effective, these efforts should be carefully integrated,… View Summary +
This report, produced by RTI International, provides guidance on U.S. best practices in air quality planning and recommendations intended to assist Jiangsu Province and the three pilot cities with developing the next generation of air quality plans. Control strategies are… View Summary +