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Renewable energy integration in China is an urgent and complex problem, requiring solutions in planning, policy, market design, regulation, operations (dispatch), and resource flexibility. All of these have a role to play in increasing system flexibility to support higher penetrations… View Summary +

Institutions and practices for power sector planning are the foundation for cost-effective investment and environmental sustainability. The main challenge is to shift the Chinese power sector away from the old model, in which meeting rapid demand growth was the prime consideration,… View Summary +

Despite an ongoing and complex debate over market design, and differences in models across the U.S., European Union, and other places, there is a significant degree of consensus on the basic principles regarding what markets are supposed to do. Based on a review of practices, the authors find that policymakers generally agree… View Summary +

Document #9 calls for better governance and regulation, especially with respect to regulatory capacity, regulatory methods, and system planning. China’s adoption of revenue-based rate-making for transmission and distribution systems is one important step toward this goal. As the reform… View Summary +
自然资源保护协会与睿博能源智库联合推出国际经验系列报告,目前已经完成4篇,分别为:美国电力规划的经验和借鉴,美国可再生能源并网的经验和借鉴,美国电力市场设计的经验和借鉴,美国电力行业政府监管的经验和借鉴。… View Summary +
自然资源保护协会与睿博能源智库联合推出国际经验系列报告,目前已经完成4篇,分别为:美国电力规划的经验和借鉴,美国可再生能源并网的经验和借鉴,美国电力市场设计的经验和借鉴,美国电力行业政府监管的经验和借鉴。… View Summary +
自然资源保护协会与睿博能源智库联合推出国际经验系列报告,目前已经完成4篇,分别为:美国电力规划的经验和借鉴,美国可再生能源并网的经验和借鉴,美国电力市场设计的经验和借鉴,美国电力行业政府监管的经验和借鉴。… View Summary +
自然资源保护协会与睿博能源智库联合推出国际经验系列报告,目前已经完成4篇,分别为:美国电力规划的经验和借鉴,美国可再生能源并网的经验和借鉴,美国电力市场设计的经验和借鉴,美国电力行业政府监管的经验和借鉴。… View Summary +
The Regulatory Assistance Project, in partnership with the Energy Foundation and NRDC, commissioned E3, a consulting firm in San Francisco, to develop an energy efficiency assessment calculator tailored for use in China. This calculator is available free of charge, operates… View Summary +
This report, written by Pamela Lesh of NRDC, compiles the rate impact experience during this decade with decoupling of retail gas and electric utility revenues from sales volumes and provides, along with this, information on relevant order numbers, statutes, mechanism… View Summary +
NRDC Comments on the Model Regulation for the Output of Specified Air Emissions from Smaller-Scale Electric Generation Resources… View Summary +
This document contains comments of NRDC Air Resource Division on the New England Disclosure Report. This proposal offers three modifications to the disclosure mechanism proposed in the recent Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) report in an effort to address the issues… View Summary +