美国清洁空气法对中国制定大气法的几点启示
2010年以来中国发布了一系列综合且严厉的措施来改善空气质量，其中国务院于2013年9月颁布的《大气污染防治行动计划》标志着里程碑。这些措施包括制定对区域空气质量达标计划、设定禁煤区，承诺煤炭消费总量控制、重点城市具体污染物减排目标的要求，例如北京，上海�...
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Opportunities to Strengthen China’s Air Pollution Control Law
Since 2010, China has announced a series of increasingly comprehensive and stringent measures to improve air quality, including the landmark Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (2013–2017) issued by the State Council in September 2013. These include requirements for regional air quality planning, plans for elimination of coal consumption in certai...
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将可再生能源纳入中国电力体系：技术入门
尽管就中国可再生能源存在海量的文献，但人们对中国电力行业基本机构的设置和运行，及其如何构成可再生能源扩展和并网的约束，缺乏足够的了解。本篇文章作为三个技术启蒙读本之一，旨在填补这一空白，文章主要针对电力系统的运作—在电力系统物理限制下匹配电力�...
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Integrating Renewables: Opportunities to Create More Flexibility in Power System Operations
Despite extensive literature on renewable energy in China, the constraints faced by industry and regulators in expanding and integrating renewable energy into power systems remain opaque. Even power sector insiders can find it difficult to fully appreciate the overall picture of institutions and practices governing China’s power sector and the complex ways in w...
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Economic Value of Demand Response
China has used demand response to solve power supply shortages and react to power incidents since the 1990s. Traditional Chinese demand response is organized under the “orderly use of electricity,” led by the government to shift peak load and control power usage during emergency periods. This method played an important role in assuring safe grid operation in ...
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Low-Carbon Power Sector Regulation: International Experience from Brazil, Europe, and the United States
With the power sector in China accounting for more than half of annual coal consumption, it will play a key role in meeting the government’s goals to reduce carbon emissions, reduce coal consumption, and improve air quality. Under the auspices of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) and the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (2013–2017), many p...
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Grid Tariffs and Role of Distribution Operators for the Energiewende
In Germany, high growth in decentralized renewable generation combined with the very large number of distribution system operators (~850) raises critical questions about the role of distribution operators, increasing grid costs, and how the charges (tariffs) to recover these costs should be designed and allocated among grid users. Grid tariffs are under particula...
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Power Sector Leaders Act to Save Western Electricity Consumers Money
Saving money for electricity consumers in the Western states seems like it should be easy. Department of Energy researchers like Brendan Kirby, Michael Milligan, Kevin Porter, Debra Lew, Brian Parsons, and Lori Bird have been showing us for more than ten years how Western electricity consumers could save money by working together. The measures they suggest are mo...
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Minimum Bills: An Effective Alternative to High Customer Charges
One wouldn’t necessarily expect the components of an electric bill to make headlines, but recent decisions in some states have caused controversy. The controversy involves the size of the monthly customer charge applied to residential consumers. Until recently, U.S. regulators generally allowed a charge of $10/month or less on residential customer bills—an am...
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中国为电网公司建立新业务模式和实施更多能效敞开大门
2014年11月4日，国家发改委下发了《关于深圳市开展输配电价改革试点的通知》（下称《通知》），正式启动我国新一轮输配电价改革试点。这份文件对拥有1千500万人口的深圳市来说，意义非同寻常。深圳将成为中国电网公司转变业务模式的先锋—电网公司将从传统的售电业务...
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