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The “missing money problem” refers to the idea that prices for energy in competitive wholesale electricity markets may not adequately reflect the value of investment in the resources needed for reliable electric service. In this article published in The… View Summary +
Ensuring a stronger grid that is capable of withstanding a catastrophic event, or alternatively a grid for which outage durations can be minimized in such an event, involves several steps. First is prevention: identifying the grid’s weaknesses and how to… View Summary +
As we head into 2017, the U.S. power sector is still in the midst of a steady, technology-driven transformation. In a RAP webinar held on January 17, 2017, RAP’s Ken Colburn, Dr. Carl Linvill, David Littell, and Richard Sedano held… 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 +
Natural gas as a power plant fuel has already played an important role in a transition to a low-carbon economy. However, while a transition to gas-fueled electricity is a carbon reduction strategy for a coal-reliant power system, putting… View Summary +
Die Entgelte für die Stromnetze steigen 2017 durchschnittlich deutlich an, entwickeln sich aber sehr unterschiedlich—zum einen im regionalen Vergleich, zum anderen mit Blick auf ihre strukturelle Aufteilung in Arbeits- und Grundpreis. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Kurzstudie im Auftrag von Agora… View Summary +
The EU’s energy infrastructure faces numerous challenges over the next decades. It needs to be decarbonized whilst ensuring the competitiveness of EU industry, providing energy security, addressing energy poverty, reducing energy bills, and empowering consumers, who play a crucial part… View Summary +
Under traditional regulation, utilities make more money when they sell more energy. Yet this reality is at odds with explicit public policy objectives that utility and environmental regulators are charged with achieving, including economic efficiency and environmental protection. Many utility-sector… View Summary +
Many states have adopted utility decoupling, or revenue regulation, which breaks the link between electricity sales and revenues to the utility. Originally, it was conceived as a way to make utilities indifferent to annual sales volumes by addressing the net… View Summary +
In this webinar, Keith Dennis of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), along with Ken Colburn and Jim Lazar of RAP, explore environmentally beneficial electrification—the electrification of energy end uses, such as space heating, water heating, and transportation. With… View Summary +
In a webinar for the Utah Public Service Commission, Jim Lazar, John Shenot, and Richard Sedano explore the intricacies of time-of-use rates. View Summary +
As China moves through the process of testing approaches and implementing a national program for regulating carbon emissions, lessons from similar programs elsewhere in the world may prove useful. In particular, such a program requires a robust review… View Summary +
Stabilne i niezawodne dostawy energii elektrycznej są priorytetem i fundamentem bezpieczeństwa energetycznego państwa, choć nie mogą stanowić nadmiernego obciążenia kosztowego dla odbiorców końcowych. Z jednej strony istotne jest utrzymanie niskich cen energii elektrycznej, ponieważ są motorem rozwoju gospodarczego oraz dają… View Summary +
Energieeffizienz ist ein essenzieller Baustein für eine kosteneffiziente Transformation und Dekarbonisierung des Energiesystems im Rahmen der Energiewende. In regulierten Energiemärkten beziehungsweise gegenüber regulierten (und integrierten) Unternehmen lassen sich dabei die Gesamtkosten des Systems relativ einfach als Zielgröße für die Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen… View Summary +