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国际电力改革和气候变化季报回顾近期全球电力行业和气候变化政策和监管的最新进展，并摘选一些我们认为对中国特别相关的进展，以供参考。 1) 美国得克萨斯州：德州“ERCOT”批发电力现货市场价格飙升。8月13日和15日，实时节点边际电价达到每兆瓦时9,000美元(人民币640元/千瓦时)，并保持了几次15分钟的定价间隔。8月份，ERCOT现货价格平均约为180美元/MWh，但全年平均价格预计不会远高于30美元/MWh。推高电价的主要因素是高温期间的空调需求。但行业内也广泛认为，价格飙升可以被视作ERCOT正常运作的一部分。ERCOT与PJM和其他几个美国批发市场不同，它没有单独的容量支付(固定成本支付)。也就是说，ERCOT是一个“单一电量”市场，这意味着发电商必须通过竞争，从现货市场价格中收回电量成本和容量成本(“固定成本”)，这通常在很大程度上取决于一年中每千瓦时市场价格达到最高水平的几个小时。同时，ERCOT有一个强化的市场监测方案，以确保任何价格飙升都是市场公平和竞争的结果，而不是单个发电商(或一些串通的发电商)操纵市场的结果。… View Summary +

ERCOT (or the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, the independent system operator of that state’s stand-alone wholesale market) has confounded the doomsayers once again. Despite dire predictions that ERCOT lacked sufficient generation capacity, it came through the peak summer season… View Summary +

In November 2018, the EU General Court ruled in favour of a legal challenge mounted by Tempus Energy to the Directorate General for Competition’s (DG COMP) approval of the capacity market in Great Britain. In its challenge, Tempus successfully argued… View Summary +

In 2014, we bought an old Victorian house in Oxford, UK, well aware it needed major renovation work. Our energy performance certificate (EPC), which shows the energy performance of a building, was a poor grade “E” on a scale of… View Summary +

Preise für Emissionen sind nicht alles, vielmehr ist die sinnvolle Verwendung der Einnahmen entscheidend. Schlüssig belegt ist, dass Energieeffizienzprogramme gut abschneiden. Auch das Ordnungsrecht – zum Beispiel Mindeststandards – helfe bei der Einhaltung der Klimaziele. Das Klimapaket der Bundesregierung ist… View Summary +

美国是全世界温室气体排放第二大国，同时也是技术和经济实力的领头羊。美国有能力引领世界寻找应对气候变化紧迫挑战的解决方案，同时迅速彻底地完成自我脱碳。 为了使能源消费向更清洁、更具成本效益的方向转变，我们需要零碳发电技术，并在使用化石燃料的终端用户侧实现大规模电气化。零碳发电技术已经实现商业化普及应用，而且成本越来越低。另外，包括储能在内的技术方案，可以增加电网灵活性，也将更便宜和更具可用性。 简言之，技术不再是脱碳经济面临的挑战。… View Summary +

In 2013, RAP released a pathbreaking publication, Recognizing the Full Value of Energy Efficiency. We refer to the main concept of this paper as “the layer cake,” after its centerpiece concept analogizing the multiple benefits of energy efficiency as… View Summary +

The power outages that occurred in the United Kingdom on August 9 demonstrated our increasing dependence on secure electricity supplies and the extremely disruptive consequences when those supplies fail. The reasons for the extent of the disruption to transport… View Summary +

The United States is the second-highest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet — but we are also a leader in technological and economic strength. We have the capability to lead the world in finding solutions to the urgent challenge… View Summary +

People unfamiliar with electric cars often fear that a blossoming of EV ownership will bring chaos to the electric grid. For example, I recently spoke with the manager of a beach resort who was fearful of adding an EV charger,… View Summary +