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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 +
Beneficial Electrification: Opportunity Knocks for Utilities
It is increasingly apparent that power sector transformation isn’t happening in the future; it’s occurring now. Already, resources are cleaner and more distributed, previously docile customers are actively seeking opportunities to save, consume, and even produce energy in new ways,… View Summary +
Carbon Markets: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Neo-classical economics tells us that markets reduce costs and increase social welfare. It also teaches that pollution not properly accounted for is a classic economic externality. That is, if clean air and clear water are not properly valued, degrading… View Summary +
It’s Aready Happening: New EIA Numbers Show a Utility Sector in Transformation
My colleague David Littell recently wrote about the inexorable shift of the US power sector toward cleaner sources of electric energy, noting that the cost of renewables has been dropping, energy efficiency continues to grow, and storage… View Summary +
