Energy efficiency programs reduce utility bills, reduce emissions of multiple pollutants, and reduce the overall cost of delivering electricity services. Measuring and considering the full spectrum of benefits delivered by energy efficiency is pivotal to capturing all cost-effective efficiency resources. View Summary +

电力“需求响应”（Demand Response）是电力公用事业公司在政府支持下开展的项目，旨在改变电力用户用电方式，降低或转移高峰用电需求。需求响应项目依靠市场机制、通过特殊激励政策、价格体系或两者结合的方式促使用户改变用电需求。基于需求响应项目的多重效益，本文首先简要介绍发达国家需求响应项目的发展，然后阐述四种典型的不同类型的项目。之后一章将探讨新的趋势。最后一章列出一些可能对中国有用的需求响应方法，同时还将讨论如何可持续地为需求响应项目提供资金。… View Summary +

As China further deepens market economy reforms, increasing the introduction of market-driven demand response measures into the country’s system for countervailing pending power shortages could be far more economically efficient and probably more equitable than the existing administrative rationing system. View Summary +

The result of a comprehensive stakeholder-driven “roadmap” exercise, this report seeks to answer the question: “How must the Indian power system evolve if India chooses to put renewable electricity at the core of the future system, rather than at the… View Summary +

The result of a comprehensive stakeholder-driven “roadmap” exercise, this report seeks to answer the question: “How must the Indian power system evolve if India chooses to put renewable electricity at the core of the future system, rather than at the… View Summary +

The advent of smart meters and the additional data they provide means that utilities can consider expanding the use of demand charges to residential customers. However, great caution should be applied when considering this option, as severe cost shifts may… View Summary +

Time and again statements asserting that high penetrations of clean energy resources like energy efficiency and renewable energy could endanger electric system reliability have proven false. We refer to these assertions collectively as “playing the reliability card” against clean energy. View Summary +