Over the past fifteen years, China implemented a series of power sector reforms that have greatly expanded the availability of power and improved the efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance of the power sector. However, serious old challenges remain and new… View Summary +

This brief review provides a high-level comparison of the savings performance of states with an energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) against states without. Overall, the states with the EERS or a tailored utility target for energy efficiency tend to produce… View Summary +

This report, written by Pamela Morgan of Graceful Systems LLC, builds on a 2009 report. Now covering 25 states, including 49 LDCs and 24 electric utilities, this report summarizes the decoupling mechanism designs these utilities use and the rate adjustments… View Summary +

This report for the Western Renewable Energy Zones (WREZ) initiative explains renewable energy and transmission planning processes in California, and identifies where stakeholder input is likely to have the greatest impact on regional development of resources and transmission lines. The… View Summary +

Policy makers around the world, in both developed and developing economies, have to make decisions today about how to avoid greenhouse gas emissions and the calamitous effects of climate change. These decisions are not only about avoiding tons of greenhouse… View Summary +

The D.C. Circuit’s Homer City decision doesn’t eliminate the uncertainty about environmental regulations that has vexed public utility commissions, the utilities they regulate, and the investment community for more than a decade. At a minimum, it extends that uncertainty farther… View Summary +

This report identifies ten significant design issues for energy efficiency potential studies, which are often mishandled, leading to flawed study results. Potential studies are nearly always expensive and time consuming undertakings. It is therefore important to “get it right” the… View Summary +

In these comments filed with the Texas Public Utility Commission, RAP responds to recommendations made by other organizations in the PUC’s Project 40000, Proceeding to Ensure Resource Adequacy in Texas. In markets with a significant share of variable resources, such… View Summary +

2011年1月，中国建立了一套实施能效的新机制，要求两大电网公司来承担节能义务。这一机制融合在现有的通过中央制定能效目标并由各级政府和所选单个企业来完成目标的节能系统中。这个报告基于国际经验，给出了我们对中国政府监督电网公司开展需求侧管理工作的意见。虽然电网公司有能力有效地开展节能工作，但是他们缺乏良好的记录并且节能义务与电网公司内在利益并不一致，所以政府的监管非常重要。电网公司实施能效项目与现有的节能系统同样有潜力取得成功。但是如果想这个潜力充分发挥出来，中国应该建立政府对电网企业需求侧管理工作强有力的监督程序。这个报告中的建议就是为了帮助建立这些程序。… View Summary +

This best practices guide provides a “cookbook” summary of the most effective policies to promote energy efficiency. Governments ranging from local to national can adopt these policies to foster the use of products and services which require less energy input… View Summary +