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“共益电气化：确保电气化实现公共利益”系列报告之《共益电气化：热水供应》
执行摘要 技术进步，无论是发电效率还是最终使用燃料，都为共益电气化提供了机会。热水供应就是这些机会之一。热水供应占住宅能源帐单的近20％ 左右——而且简单地说，今天用电加热1加仑水所需的能源，远远少于直接用化石燃料加热。 在本文中，我们探索可用于热水供应电气化有益的策略，这意味着它将满足我们的共益电气化标准中的至少一个，且同时不会对另外两个产生不利影响： 从长期看可以为消费者省钱；… View Summary +
“共益电气化：确保电气化实现公共利益”系列报告之《共益电气化：供暖》
执行摘要 睿博能源智库认为，有效益的电气化，或者说实现社会利益最大化的电气化，需要达到以下一个或多个条件，且对另外两个条件不产生反作用： 从长期看可以为消费者省钱； 促进电网的更好管理； 减少对环境的消极影响。… View Summary +
EVs’ Rise Doesn’t Need to be Auto Dealers’ Demise
Some argue that the growth of electric vehicles will be the end of auto dealerships. Car dealers today derive significant revenues by providing parts and service for the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles they sell. If EVs, with their… View Summary +
We All Wish We Were More Flexible: Electrification Load as a Grid Flexibility Resource
Imagine you are preparing dinner for guests arriving at 6 p.m. when you learn that they’ve been delayed. And imagine that, instead of keeping the food hot, you had to throw all of it away and start cooking again for… View Summary +
共益电气化：确保电气化实现公共利益（二）
前言 本文为共益电气化：确保电气化实现公共利益 （英文版）摘要第二篇。尽管对于电力公司，消费者和公共环境来说，共益电气化可以带来巨大的创新和机遇，但共益电气化需要各州的行动支持，才能实现相关的利益。本节概述了重要的政策先决条件，实施流程和其他有助于成功实施共益电气化及其众多优势的考虑因素。… View Summary +
共益电气化：确保电气化实现公共利益(一)
前言 本文为睿博能源报告《… View Summary +
PBR-电力监管新模式
美国电力行业的监管体系已有130年历史，而电网正在迅速实现现代化。电力监管机构需要与时俱进，跟上电网现代化步伐。当前兴起的监管模式是基于绩效的监管，简称PBR。很多州现在都在关注如何将电力公司收入和实现绩效目标的能力联系起来，如何在不同环境下应用PBR，睿博能源智库一直在提供相关建议。我们将撰写一系列文章来讨论21世纪电力监管模式PBR应包含什么元素？并介绍最佳实践，设计依据和具体应用，本文是该系列第一篇。 传统的电力监管模式 当今美国的大多数电力公司都是服务成本（Cost-of-Service）监管。消费者向电力公司支付提供电力服务（例如，输电，配电和其他公用基础设施）的成本，以及投资的规定回报。监管机构的工作是监督这种安排，确保服务安全可靠，电费公平。但这种方法激励了某些行为：受监管的电力公司认识到，通过建设更多的发电，输电，配电和其他基础设施，在下一次电价调价前（rate case）尽可能多的销售电量，这样做可以最大化其收入和利润。这对于需要大量资本投资的大型集中式发电厂体系尤其有效。… View Summary +
Brewing Up the Regulation of the Future
The regulatory system that governs U.S. electric utilities is 130 years old—while our power grid is rapidly modernizing. Utility regulators need a tool that can facilitate reform to keep pace with this change. One tool they are increasingly exploring: performance-based… View Summary +
Fuel-Switching: We Just Did This in 1990, So Why Are We Doing It Again?
RAP senior advisor Jim Lazar tells a story about doing a cost and environmental analysis on behalf of the Association of Northwest Gas Utilities in 1990, in which he compared space and water heating run on natural-gas-generated electricity to… View Summary +
When Utility Gas Affiliates Play by Monopoly Rules, Consumers Are Likely to Lose
Can monopolies with market power send business to other regulated monopolies? Can one monopoly create a “need” for which ratepayers will be charged by another related monopoly? As it stands right now, the answer to both these questions is yes. View Summary +
