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July 1, 2020
Agricultural demand-side management needs multi-sectoral interventions
- Mahesh Patankar ,
- Frederick Weston ,
- Robert Lieberman
Cheap agricultural electricity has bedevilled the Indian power sector for decades, but enhanced agricultural demand-side management won’t solve the problem alone Virtually everyone with a working knowledge of the Indian power sector will agree that one of the sector’s biggest… View Summary +
June 6, 2019
New Approaches Needed to Value India’s Energy Resources
- Rasika Athawale
Central and state renewable energy procurement agencies in India cancelled approximately 7,000 MW of tenders for solar and wind capacity addition in 2018. They reason that delaying procurement will lead to savings in purchase costs, since the levelised… View Summary +
March 27, 2019
国际电力市场改革季报
- Regulatory Assistance Project
国际电力改革季报回顾近期全球电力行业政策和监管的最新进展,并摘选一些我们认为对中国电力市场改革特别相关的进展,以供参考。 纽约:将碳成本纳入电力批发市场和调度过程:负责监管批发市场并在该州扮演“调度中心”和 “现货市场交易中心”角色的纽约独立系统运营商(NYISO)正在开发一种机制,将碳成本纳入系统运营。新机制将建立在已经使用的“经济调度”方法的基础上。和以前一样,NYISO将收集与每个可用资源相关的可变成本的信息,进行实时更新调度的“优先顺序”… View Summary +
March 18, 2019
印度启动电力批发市场改革
- Dheer Patel
在过去的几十年里,印度政府一直在电力行业实施广泛的改革,目标是为所有公民提供可靠,负担得起和清洁的电力。在过去几个月中,印度中央电力监管委员会(CERC)通过一系列讨论文件阐述电力批发市场改革的提案。如果电力改革得以实施,可以通过优化现有供应侧资源(即发电和输电)的使用来帮助提高电力系统的整体效率,电力市场改革也是实现经济有效地将快速增长的可再生能源份额纳入电网的重要步骤。 印度目前的电力市场设计导致廉价资源的严重利用不足和昂贵资源的过度使用,无意中造成了“压力资产”。还产生了大量的可再生能源弃电。目前状况下,配电公司通过长期合同获得大约87%的电量,并通过短期双边交易和电力交易来获得余下的电量。此外,大多数的配电公司与发电商签订双边合同,自行安排发电计划。 在这个过程中,与一家配电公司签约的成本相对较低的发电机组可能没有运行。与此同时,如果需要额外电力,另一家配电公司无法得知这台成本较低的发电机组是否可用,有可能最终将使用与其签订合同的成本相对较高的发电机组。因此,第二家配电公司不必要地支付了更高的电力成本。在印度降低电力成本的主要障碍是无法评估该国所有可用发电机组及其边际成本。… View Summary +
February 19, 2019
Voluntary Renewable Energy Certificates: Win-Win for India Inc. and Government
- Rasika Athawale ,
- Ranjit Bharvirkar
Government actions to facilitate the use of renewable energy certificates (RECs) can improve Indian companies’ ability to compete globally—a major policy objective of the current government. Driven partly by consumer demand, firms are being serious about the “source” of… View Summary +
February 15, 2019
India Kick-Starts Wholesale Market Reforms
- Dheer Patel
Over the last couple of decades, Indian policymakers have been implementing a wide range of reforms in the electricity sector with the goal of providing reliable, affordable, and clean power to all citizens. During the last few months, the… View Summary +
September 28, 2018
Karnataka’s power sector: History, politics of development have consequences
- Meera Sudhakar
When Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy announced crop loan waivers in his first budget after he came to power in May this year, there was widespread concern about how the state would finance these. Many who thought the loan waiver was… View Summary +
September 19, 2018
A Tale of Two Reforms: The Power Sector in Andhra Pradesh
- Ashwini K. Swain
Andhra Pradesh’s power sector is going through a second phase of reforms. The first (1999-2004) was widely seen as focused on privatization of electricity distribution; this time the goal is to ensure affordable and reliable power supply for all. To… View Summary +
September 18, 2018
A Window for Power Sector Transformation in Uttar Pradesh
- Jonathan Balls
A rare window is open for power sector reform in Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in office in both Lucknow and New Delhi, has a sweeping mandate to transform Uttar Pradesh’s troubled electricity situation. The party has made… View Summary +
September 17, 2018
Electricity Reforms in India Depend on Getting the Politics Right
- Navroz Dubash ,
- Sunila Kale ,
- Ranjit Bharvirkar
The Indian economy is among the fastest-growing in the world. Sustaining this growth requires a healthy electricity sector that is able to meet increased demands, ideally alongside an eye to environmental sustainability. Yet electricity consumers continue to face unreliable supply,… View Summary +