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January 12, 2016
Power Sector Transformation Advances, With Choices, Questions, and Big Opportunities
As we head into the New Year, RAP’s U.S. team will be devoting more time to a broad set of issues known as “power sector transformation.” Power sector transformation in the United States will affect the way many of us… View Summary +
January 11, 2016
Nie uciekniemy od inteligentnych sieci
- Jan Rączka
Budowa inteligentnych sieci i zarządzane popytem powinny być priorytetami. Z jednej strony zmusi nas do tego polityka Komisji Europejskiej, z drugiej – mogą one sprawić, że mało elastyczny polski system energetyczny będzie bardziej efektywny. W latach 2008-13 inteligentne sieci energetyczne… View Summary +
December 16, 2015
Power Sector Modernisation and Market Design in Poland
The Polish power sector is at a pivotal moment. It faces a number of challenges stemming from the profile of its power system, rising demand for power during summer peaks, and increasing penetration of renewable resources on the system. Its… View Summary +
December 2, 2015
Put the Horse Before the Cart: Align Clean Power Plan Compliance with State Energy Goals
- Ken Colburn ,
- Christopher James
Most states are still sorting through the details of EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) final rule. Given its significant, though generally positive, departure from the proposed rule, and EPA’s initial plan submittal deadline of September 6, 2016,… View Summary +
October 5, 2015
Finding the Sweet Spot for Natural Gas Investment
Natural gas is an important part of our low-carbon future, but finding the “sweet spot” for gas investment is not easy. Too much investment in gas pipeline infrastructure and gas generation is risky. Gas pipeline and generation investments are long… View Summary +
July 2, 2015
“深化改革”推进电网公司的电力需求侧管理和节能减排工作
- David Crossley
在一些国家,电力公司将终端能源效率作为一项资源,用以满足客户的能源服务需求。能效被看作是一种具有成本效益的供应侧资源来进行投资,等同于建设电厂和扩建电网。按照这种认识,提高能效将能够为电力系统、电力用户、以及整个社会带来多种效益。 2011年,中国中央政府制定了… View Summary +
July 2, 2015
Increasing Opportunities for Utility Delivery of DSM and Energy Efficiency in China
- David Crossley
In several jurisdictions around the world, electric utilities employ end-use energy efficiency as a resource in meeting their customers’ needs for energy services. Energy efficiency is seen as a cost-effective alternative to investing in supply-side resources, such… View Summary +
June 18, 2015
Brussels, Don’t Leave Customer Participation in the Electricity Market to the Incumbents!
- Philip Baker
Allowing customers to participate directly in electricity markets is crucial both to making those markets more efficient and to reducing the costs of integrating renewable energies. The Commission’s Energy Union Market Design Initiative currently under development represents a unique opportunity… View Summary +
March 23, 2015
A New Framework for China’s Power Sector
- Max Dupuy ,
- Frederick Weston
The Chinese government has just finalized Deepening Reform of the Power Sector, a policy document co-signed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the State Council. The Chinese media have anticipated this document for months,… View Summary +
October 16, 2014
Securing the Social License to Transform Power Sector Regulation
I recently participated in a conversation with North American regulation experts organized by University of Calgary professor and former California Energy Commissioner Michal Moore. The topic was the “social license” in energy regulation. What is the social… View Summary +