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As India progresses toward meeting its renewable energy targets, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is gearing up to implement a continuum of wholesale electricity market products. These will help facilitate large scale renewable energy grid integration and optimize system… View Summary +
Forecasting, scheduling, and balancing are the foundation for higher penetration renewable electricity systems. Together, they constitute the core processes through which variable renewable generation—wind, solar, and run-of-river hydroelectric—is transmitted over the electricity grid and delivered to consumers. Although forecasting, scheduling,… View Summary +
RAP has filed comments with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) regarding the organization’s recently-released draft Distributed Energy Resources Compensation Manual. In the comments, RAP commends NARUC for undertaking this… View Summary +
This paper, presented at the NARUC Climate Change Conference, describes eight key policies that China has adopted in the electric sector to control its energy consumption and steer the country down a lower-carbon development path. View Summary +
National climate change policy faces the challenge of achieving deep emissions reductions while minimizing economic disruption. Since one of the principal aims of a cap-and-trade program is to lower the overall societal cost of environmental improvement, it is crucial to… View Summary +
The purpose of this paper is to describe implementation options for two concepts: deaveraged distribution credits and distributed resource development zones, as first described in Profits and Progress Though Distributed Resources (NARUC,February 2000). View Summary +
In November 1996, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC) adopted a Resolution in Support Of Customer Right-To-Know and Product Labeling Standards for Retail Marketing Of Electricity and identified the need to provide retail consumers with clear and uniform… View Summary +
This primer is the culmination of a project sponsored by the Energy Conservation Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). It addresses utility and regulatory considerations which are relevant to the strategic planning process in the provision… View Summary +