2019年11月7日，国家能源局西北监管局组织召开了西北区域电力市场及电力交易工作培训会，甘肃、新疆能源监管办，西北五省区电网企业、发电企业和售电公司相关业务人员共计120余人参加培训，睿博能源智库的六位欧美专家受邀出席并授课。本期为读者介绍关于美国电力市�...

A team from RAP shared international best practices for wholesale market design with participants at a workshop organized by the Northwest Energy Regulatory Bureau and National Energy Administration. The RAP team shared experience with market monitoring, resource adequacy and planning, and integrating variable renewable resources into the grid....

In a recent special issue of The Electricity Journal guest-edited by RAP staff, authors tackled various aspects of the topic of energy optimization. RAP brought together three of the authors who contributed to the special issue for a webinar conversation: Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy; Sue Coakley, execut...

Perhaps the most basic of electricity sector rules, one that has operated for over a century, is that electricity must be generated at precisely the same time it's consumed. For years, grid operators have determined load on a system and adjusted supply by adding available generators to meet it, first with the lowest-cost units, then adding more expensive ones unt...

​This policy brief dives deeper into rate design for low- and moderate-income (LMI) ratepayers in New England. As always, effective rate design is crucial to achieving regulatory and public policy goals, but achieving broad societal policy goals need not come at the cost of burdening economically vulnerable LMI ratepayers. To design rates at levels customers ...

​In a policy training session at the University of California in Davis, Carl Linvill delivered a comprehensive overview of integrated distribution planning, smart rate design, and performance-based regulation, as well as the synergies distributed energy resources bring to today's grid....

The energy transition in Germany poses challenges, but two main issues are emerging with regard to power distribution. First, peaks occur on the system on days when high levels of wind and solar generation are injected. Second, increases in the use of electric heat pumps and electric transport are driving peak demand higher. Viewed through the lens of conventiona...

​Jim Lazar spoke at a conference sponsored by Uplight, on business model innovation and technological innovation in the electricity industry. His presentation addressed eliminating rate base as a determinant of utility earnings, recognition of the health benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy, and innovative technologies that will assist in the tran...

​At a ratemaking conference for the District of Columbia Public Service Commission, Jessica Shipley explored how performance- based regulation may best support regulators in aligning utility, ratepayer, and public interests....