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Electrifying long-haul freight across Europe can dramatically reduce emissions from transport to help meet climate goals. To advance the use of electric trucks, Member States will need to build more high-capacity charging, or ‘megawatt charging,’ infrastructure along core freight corridors. View Summary +
The Netherlands government has laid out ambitious plans to be climate neutral by 2050 and has engaged in multi-pronged efforts to meet this goal. It has successfully promoted the generation of renewable energy through the installation of utility-scale and household-level… View Summary +
国家发展改革委、国家能源局联合印发《关于建立煤电容量电价机制的通知》，决定自2024年1月1日起建立煤电容量电价机制，对煤电实行两部制电价政策。各个省已经制定了具体的细则实施容量电价，以期望减少煤电亏损，激励煤电支持保供，增加煤电灵活性改造。然而，除非这些容量补偿机制设计精准得当，否则可能导致不必要的风险，包括容量过剩、不合理的资源组合、过高的成本和排放，以及阻碍系统灵活性和减缓电力行业转型。… View Summary +
Brazil has excellent experience with policy regarding electricity accessibility. The Luz para Todos program, enacted in 2003, had connected 17.2 million rural Brazilians with electricity by 2023. But in some areas, particularly the Legal Amazon, challenges to electricity access persist. View Summary +
To add vast new amounts of solar, wind and other variable renewable generation, the electricity system will need to become far more flexible. Customers have a central role in achieving this, by adapting how and when they use electricity. This demand-side… View Summary +
A power purchase agreement (PPA) is a contract used by a purchasing entity to procure electricity from a project developer. This contract specifies the volume and price of the energy purchased and the duration of the agreement. “Renewables PPAs” specifically… View Summary +
2023年11月15日国家能源局综合司发布了《电力市场信息披露基本规则（征求意见稿）》。“统一全国电力市场信息披露机制，加强和规范信息披露工作”有助于深化电力体制改革、加快建设全国统一大市场。… View Summary +
In this Power System Blueprint deep dive, Dominic Scott and Monika Morawiecka discuss the merits of different types of two-sided contracts for difference (CfDs). Written in the style of a three-act Shakespearian play, the authors take a look at… View Summary +
Deployment of heat pumps is a key part of greenhouse gas reduction goals set out in the Inflation Reduction Act. In this paper, a collaboration between RAP and CLASP, the authors analyze impacts of the IRA on heat pump… View Summary +
Over the past decade, Southern China has been at the forefront of the development and implementation of electricity market rules. Beginning in 2022 and continuing through July 2023, the South China Energy Regulatory Office of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局南方监管局),… View Summary +
In a webinar discussion, Mark LeBel, Steve Kihm, Richard Sedano and Damali Harding highlighted a RAP paper exploring the policy, legal and financial aspects of performance incentive mechanisms and re-examined recent practices underlying cost-of-service ratemaking and the utility business… View Summary +
As electrification continues to gain momentum, the implications for system reliability will be profound. Not only is demand likely to grow, but daily and seasonal patterns of energy use may shift. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, for one, has highlighted… View Summary +
冬夏季的用电高峰时常让电力系统面临供应不足的风险。除却发电机组的基本调峰外，利用分时电价引导用户错峰用电通常是一种经济的选择。但在某些情况下，静态的分时电价可能无法灵活应对突发状况。相比之下，实时电价作为更“智能”的定价方式，通过揭示系统当前的供需和运行状况，能够及时反映系统在小时和分钟内的变化，使消费者得以根据实际的发电成本做出相应的用电调整。而在消费者方面，大型用户在管理和控制用电方面具有更高的灵活性，更容易适应实时电价机制。 … View Summary +
Electric vehicles (EVs) can do more than simply transport people or goods from place to place. Through smart charging and bidirectional charging, their batteries can become an important societal resource. When these EV batteries are charged matters. Smart charging —… View Summary +
