国际经验表明，电力市场，特别是电力现货市场，很容易受到操纵，从而导致增加不必要的成本和排放，降低系统效率。在电力短缺和输电系统阻塞时，这些问题将更加突出。随着现货市场在全国范围内的发展，完善市场监管的需求将继续增长。总的来说，在欧洲、美国以及�...

​In an interactive webinar presentation, panelists discussed a “next-generation” approach to utility procurement and evolving best practices, based in part on recent work done by RAP and RMI. The webinar offered recommendations on how to design clear rules for procurement processes that consider all available resources, are aligned with both utility and pub...

在清洁转型和气候变化的大形势下，保证电力系统安全稳定至关重要。这需要合理预测负荷、准确衡量各个资源的贡献，更好地利用区域市场优势来维持高可靠性，达到鼓励竞争、降低成本、减少排放的目的。 本文首刊于《电力决策与舆情参考》  ...

The steep decline in wind and solar generation costs in the past decade opens up new opportunities for electric utilities and their customers. In an increasing number of regions, it can be cheaper to build new solar and wind generators than to operate existing fossil-fired plants. Yet vertically integrated utilities have often been slow to take advantage of low-c...

本文着眼于支持到2050年能源行业转型的雄心勃勃的情景，讨论主要集中在近期和中期的实际操作上。我们将介绍同样正在为电力部门转型议程努力的其他国家相关讨论中的观点。我们还会讨论未来五年左右，就南方电网地区的制度背景和改革现状，在能源政策、市场设计、规�...

The five-province Southern Grid region has long been a testing ground for new policies and reforms. Most recently, the central government asked the region to become the first integrated regional electricity spot market. Starting from the central government’s call for an “energy revolution,” RAP developed a detailed set of recommendations and engaged in disc...

Electrification and power sector reform are interdependent challenges for countries around the world. Both will be central components of strategies to achieve ambitious carbon emissions reductions. In China, air quality challenges and other circumstances suggest a further urgency for electrification. Realizing the benefits of electrification in terms of carbon em...

电气化和电力行业改革两者密切相关，是全球各国和各地区面临的双重挑战。两者都将是实现雄心勃勃的碳减排战略的核心组成部分。在中国，空气质量挑战和其他情况表明电气化的紧迫性进一步加大。电改使得发电结构发生演变，决定了电气化对改善空气质量和减少温室气�...

In May 2019, China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) loosened  restrictions on  new coal power  plant  construction. This gave eight  provinces the green light to build new coal-fired generation capacity. Because of the  increasingly uncertain value proposition of  new  coal power generation,  even investments  that pass  the NEA�...