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Declining costs for electric vehicles (EVs) make the prospect of a surge in EVs on the power system seem imminent. Policymakers are understandably excited at the prospect of decarbonising road transport, and the grid services that EV’s can provide. In… View Summary +

In a RAP webinar held on 31 January 2018, Christos Kolokathis and Andreas Jahn demonstrated how smart network tariff design is a powerful tool to help regulators meet Europe’s Energy Union goals. View Summary +
This article, published by Energy Research & Social Science, unpacks the institutional bottlenecks and path dependency holding back the energy transition in Gujarat and Rajasthan. As heavily-indebted electricity distribution companies in Rajasthan… View Summary +
Network charges—the fees paid by consumers to cover the costs for power lines and other network assets and services—are steadily increasing across Europe. In one respect, this is not surprising, as these costs are expected to increase as the network… View Summary +
Neben der EEG-Umlage sind die Netzentgelte für die meisten Verbraucher der zweite Hauptbestandteil der Stromrechnung. Während die Höhe der EEG-Umlage jährlich große Aufmerksamkeit erhält, ist dies für die Entwicklung der Netzentgelte bislang nicht der Fall – nicht zuletzt aufgrund mangelnder… View Summary +
Electricity use by non-residential customers accounts for nearly two-thirds of California’s total consumption. Many of these customers are interested in adopting distributed energy resources, and many have access to sophisticated energy management and load control technologies. These customers could therefore… View Summary +
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 +