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The revision of the Electricity Law proposed by China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) provides an opportunity to support the Chinese government’s goals for power sector reform, air quality improvements and a zero-carbon economy — including the new 2060 and “before… View Summary +
国家能源局提出的《电力法(修订草案送审稿)》为支持中国政府实现电力行业改革、改善空气质量和促进零碳经济提供了机会,其中包括2060年和“2030年前”需要实现的碳排放目标。国家能源局提出了关于“清洁能源”、“可再生能源”和“需求侧资源”… View Summary +
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… View Summary +
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、规划和相关政策方面的务实步骤。我们的分析采用整体视角,考虑了减排、成本降低和可靠性之间的相互关联的挑战。… View Summary +
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… View Summary +
理解碳市场和电力市场之间的相互作用以及它们之间的相互影响——是两者良好设计的关键。国际经验表明,以孤立的政策设计电力市场和碳市场不会带来最佳结果。协同设计这些方案有助于市场尽可能经济有效,并确保碳排放计划以尽可能低的成本为终端用户和整个电力部门实现目标。… View Summary +
Understanding the interactions between carbon markets and electricity markets — the impacts of each on the other — is key to good design of both. International experience shows that designing power markets and carbon markets in isolated policy “silos” does… View Summary +
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. View Summary +
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体排放产生的贡献,并释放电气化终端用途的灵活性。尤其是,需要合理设计和实施电力市场、改进电力行业规划、良好执行环境法规来激励电力行业远离化石燃料发电同时最小化成本。… View Summary +
The issues of market monitoring and market power have long been important topics in market policy, regulation and design in the United States, European Union and other countries. As China continues its power sector reform effort, which includes an… View Summary +
本政策简介讨论了电力市场监管的几个重要方面:市场监测,缓解市场力以及确保有效的市场和调度的方法。本文主要概述了在中国当前电力行业改革形势下尤为重要的几个相关主题。此外,文中还提供了详细参考资料,引导感兴趣的读者索引有助于设计市场监测方法相关的详细示例和文献。我们在本文中强调的三个主题是:… View Summary +
Much has been written about the value of solar photovoltaic generation, but less about the value of some of the other distributed energy resources — other forms of distributed generation, energy storage, electric vehicles, demand response, and energy efficiency —… View Summary +
Demand response can be an excellent flexible resource and can cost-effectively support a grid with high penetrations of variable renewable generation. Unfortunately, this potential has not yet been widely exploited, due to a number of obstacles at the wholesale and… View Summary +
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… View Summary +