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 of variable renewable energy. This paper reviews U.S. experience with incr...

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, and toward a model that gives careful consideration of complex trade-offs and mul...

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 that markets should be de...

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 effort deepens, however, China’s methods of regulating and its instituti...

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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。 与本系列其他报告一样，我们在此介绍美国...

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。 美国部分地区也面临着与中国类似的挑战：...