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May 22, 2015
Complying with the Clean Power Plan While Delivering Affordable, Reliable Power
- Ken Colburn ,
- John Shenot
Yesterday, the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) released an important new resource: Implementing EPA’s Clean Power Plan: A Menu of Options (disclosure: RAP provided technical assistance and helped write the Menu). We believe the… View Summary +

April 30, 2015
Chinese Government Releases Major Policy Guidance on Renewable Integration and Related Issues
- Max Dupuy ,
- Kevin Porter ,
- Wang Xuan
In late March, the National Development and Reform Council (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) jointly issued Guidance on Improving Power Sector Operation to Enable More Generation and Full Generation of Clean Energy. This document followed… View Summary +
April 29, 2015
中国电力报采访稿声明
声明:睿博能源智库于2015年3月28日刊登在“中国电力报”的专访“寻找安全可靠成本经济解决方案”,以及特稿“将能效作为发电厂的能源资源”,由于某些原因,未能准确反映我们的观点,现将应刊登稿件发布如下,以作澄清。 中国电力报: 您对这份方案的总体感觉是什么?可以进行一个总体评价吗?… View Summary +
April 18, 2015
Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need?
- Michael Hogan ,
- Michael O’Boyle ,
- Sonia Aggarwal
Competitive wholesale power markets are designed to sustain needed investment through market participants hedging risks in response to transparent pricing in the energy and ancillary services markets. But in practice, it’s been a challenge to realize market prices fully reflective… View Summary +
April 9, 2015
Tracking Renewable Energy for Compliance with the Clean Power Plan
Since the rule’s proposal in June 2014, Clean Power Plan compliance discussions have been weighing the potential benefits of regional versus single-state approaches, and balancing possible lower program costs and administrative burdens against state concerns over compromising sovereignty. More recently,… 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 +
February 16, 2015
India Launches Renewable Electricity Roadmap 2030
The Government of India has significantly revised its ambitions for renewable electricity, now aiming for 100 GW of solar energy by 2022, and 40 GW of wind by 2019. This is a huge leap in ambition and puts this fast-growing… View Summary +
February 9, 2015
Energy Efficiency as an Air Quality Strategy: Connecting the Dots Using a Mobile Source Analogy
- Ken Colburn
Every year states invest more than $6 billion in energy efficiency programs, which also improve air quality. Yet, states rarely receive any credit for the resulting emissions reductions! The benefits don’t stop with air quality. Energy efficiency not only reduces… View Summary +
February 5, 2015
Tackling 111(d) Compliance Planning: It’s Not a SIP!
- Christopher James
States asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for flexibility in crafting plans to meet the requirements of the proposed Clean Power Plan (also known as 111(d), after the pertinent section of the Clean Air Act), and EPA listened. EPA’s… View Summary +
January 23, 2015
美国清洁空气法对中国制定大气法的几点启示
- Christopher James
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,上海和广东。所有338个重点城市和县级以上政府都需要制定空气质量达标计划或者实施2013年后生效的计划。 这些计划的跨度和严格程度空前所有。与中国不同,美国和欧洲从四十年代到七十年代遭受严重污染所困扰的时候,他们每次只针对一个污染物,例如,首先处理烟雾,或者汽车污染,之后酸雨,然后是流动性空气污染。中国迅速的发展同时伴随着公众健康和科学知识的进步,要求在同一时间解决所有的污染从而阻止目前正在发生的对健康和环境的影响进一步恶化。幸运的是,最近的数据显示,结合能效和改善能源消费的多污染物协同治理的方式是具有高成本效益的,特别是和注重终端排放治理的方法对比而言。… View Summary +