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Spain is a geographically diverse country, with climate zones to match: the hot, dry southern coast gives way to cool, snowy mountain ranges in the north. The sun, a valuable renewable energy resource, is an almost constant presence throughout the… View Summary +
In this Power System Blueprint deep dive, Dominic Scott takes a comprehensive look at the challenge of implementing nodal pricing in Europe. As the penetration of variable renewable resources and distributed energy resources continues to grow, the advantages of… View Summary +
2023年11月10日，国家发改委和国家能源局联合印发了《关于建立煤电容量补偿电价机制的通知》（发改价格〔2023〕1501号）。2024年初，各地相继出台了煤电容量补偿机制。然而若要引导电力系统转型朝着更加经济、环保的方向前进，必要的下一步是将公平竞争引入容量采购。虽然一些中央政策文件和市场规则鼓励新型资源（储能、需求侧资源、电动汽车）提供容量，目前仍鲜有项目落地——电力行业对于新型资源的可靠性和如何提供容量等问题仍缺乏共识。本文首先回归“容量”这一概念，并指出了多元新型资源提供容量的经济效应和可靠性，最后以美国东部的电力区域市场,… View Summary +
The EU Green Deal includes, among its climate neutrality initiatives, promises to put “people first,” be “just and inclusive” and to “[leave] no one behind”. The package of legislation – the Fit for 55 package – introduced to deliver on… View Summary +
Policymakers across the globe are searching for solutions to reduce the use of fossil fuels and their associated climate impacts. Attention has focused on the heating sector, which relies heavily on fossil fuels and was responsible for almost 40% of… View Summary +
The Regulatory Energy Transition Accelerator (RETA, https://retatheaccelerator.org/), launched at COP26, is an initiative to build capacity for energy regulators as they work to advance toward a clean energy transition. Serving as a resource hub for regulators, RETA’s flagship project,… View Summary +
Slovakia’s climate plans call for decarbonising buildings, shifting to clean technologies and reducing energy consumption. Fossil fuels currently provide 45% of heat and hot water in buildings, with biofuels and district heating — also fossil-fuel based — making significant additional… View Summary +
Im Jahr 2023 hat die Bundesnetzagentur in Folge europarechtlicher Anforderungen vom Gesetzgeber die Festlegungskompetenz für die Anreizregulierung zugewiesen bekommen – mittels derer die Regulierungsbehörden auf Basis umfassender Kostenvergleiche und Effizienzanforderungen Erlösobergrenzen für die Strom- und Gasnetzbetreiber festlegen. Nach einer… View Summary +
Electrifying long-haul freight across Europe can dramatically reduce emissions from transport to help meet climate goals. To advance the use of electric trucks, Member States will need to build more high-capacity charging, or ‘megawatt charging,’ infrastructure along core freight corridors. View Summary +
The Netherlands government has laid out ambitious plans to be climate neutral by 2050 and has engaged in multi-pronged efforts to meet this goal. It has successfully promoted the generation of renewable energy through the installation of utility-scale and household-level… View Summary +
国家发展改革委、国家能源局联合印发《关于建立煤电容量电价机制的通知》，决定自2024年1月1日起建立煤电容量电价机制，对煤电实行两部制电价政策。各个省已经制定了具体的细则实施容量电价，以期望减少煤电亏损，激励煤电支持保供，增加煤电灵活性改造。然而，除非这些容量补偿机制设计精准得当，否则可能导致不必要的风险，包括容量过剩、不合理的资源组合、过高的成本和排放，以及阻碍系统灵活性和减缓电力行业转型。… View Summary +
Brazil has excellent experience with policy regarding electricity accessibility. The Luz para Todos program, enacted in 2003, had connected 17.2 million rural Brazilians with electricity by 2023. But in some areas, particularly the Legal Amazon, challenges to electricity access persist. View Summary +
To add vast new amounts of solar, wind and other variable renewable generation, the electricity system will need to become far more flexible. Customers have a central role in achieving this, by adapting how and when they use electricity. This demand-side… View Summary +
In this Power System Blueprint deep dive, Dominic Scott and Monika Morawiecka discuss the merits of different types of two-sided contracts for difference (CfDs). Written in the style of a three-act Shakespearian play, the authors take a look at… View Summary +
Over the past decade, Southern China has been at the forefront of the development and implementation of electricity market rules. Beginning in 2022 and continuing through July 2023, the South China Energy Regulatory Office of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局南方监管局),… View Summary +
