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November 5, 2020
可再生能源如何参与电力市场?
- Fredrich (Fritz) Kahrl ,
- Wang Xuan ,
- Max Dupuy
随着中国政府提出的低碳、零碳观念的深入,电力行业首当其冲需要加速扩大清洁电力的渗透率。在各地区探索电力市场设计,逐步完善电力交易规则的新形势下,如何让以光伏发电,风能发电为代表的可再生能源以及新兴的储能资源参与市场是业界关心的话题。 我们前几篇政策短文就电力区域市场建设,区域市场之间的协调进行了讨论,在这一篇和下一篇短文中,我们会基于国际经验分别介绍可再生能源和储能参与电力市场的途径和步骤。 光伏发电和风能发电参与电力市场的三种模式 在之前的文章中,我们提出区域RTO是提供低成本灵活性的良好途径,从而更好地应对波动性可再生能源出力的不确定性。可再生能源在不同时间尺度更好地参与电力市场有利于电力系统稳定高效运行,支持低成本零碳转型。在美国RTO/ISO地区,可再生能源在过去的十多年一直积极参与电力市场,为形成风能和太阳能发电的“参与模式”积累了宝贵的经验。美国可再生能源主要参与三类市场竞争:远期市场(中长期市场)、电能量市场、辅助服务市场。 一、远期市场(中长期市场)… View Summary +
October 23, 2020
Revisiting the Public Good, Part 1: A Better Understanding of “Public”
Ensuring the “public good” has been a central regulatory goal since the US Supreme Court decided Munn v. Illinois in 1876, a case in which the court determined that grain elevators — because of their key role in the… View Summary +
September 15, 2020
Adiós al carbón, bienvenida flexibilidad de demanda: Cómo puede España liderar la transición energética
- Christos Kolokathis
Cuando varias centrales térmicas cierran simultáneamente, aproximadamente 4’6 GW el 30 de junio de 2020, sería de esperar algún… View Summary +
September 15, 2020
Adios to coal, bienvenido demand flexibility: How Spain can lead the way in the energy transition
- Christos Kolokathis
When a bunch of thermal power plants shut down simultaneously, around 4.6 GW on 30 June 2020, one would normally expect to hear concerns about emerging blackouts. But not in Spain. The recent closure of half of the remaining… View Summary +
September 10, 2020
California’s Outages Are a Teachable Moment
Two keen observers of the power sector, Jigar Shah and Cheryl LaFleur, have noted that the responses to the rotating power outages in California on August 14 and 15 became a Rorschach test of individual preexisting biases. Before… View Summary +
July 10, 2020
Early insights from India’s first month operating the real-time market
- Dheer Patel
India’s real-time market (RTM), launched on June 1st, 2020 on both the power exchanges after two years of public consultations by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). The RTM is a centralized market platform which runs a double-sided closed auction,… View Summary +
June 29, 2020
Pushing water uphill: Putting power behind the renovation wave
For some time now I have been struck by the irony of the European Commission’s chosen name for its building renovation policy package, the “renovation wave,” given that increasing the rate of renovation has been like pushing water uphill. Currently,… View Summary +
June 18, 2020
Extra Credit: Maximizing the Benefits of Solar in Schools
- Dara Torre ,
- Janine Migden-Ostrander
While across the country America’s schools have been shuttered this spring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sun continues to shine. More than 1,000 megawatts of installed solar capacity from nearly 5,500 K-12 school buildings continues to generate… View Summary +
June 8, 2020
China’s Watchdog for State-Owned Enterprises Grapples With Coal-Fired Generation
The future of China’s power sector, which accounts for about a quarter of the world’s annual consumption of coal and a still-growing fleet of coal-fired generation units, is one of the central questions for world climate policy. Within… View Summary +
May 28, 2020
Power Sector Transformation and Economic Recovery in China
The good news is that coal is struggling around much of the world because the business case for coal-fired power is diminishing year by year. In competitive procurements around the globe, portfolios of clean energy — wind and solar especially… View Summary +