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Małe systemy ciepłownicze stoją przed wieloma wyzwaniami. Po pierwsze, najczęściej wymagają modernizacji zarówno w obszarze wytwarzania, jak i dystrybucji. Po drugie, regulacje wspierają rozwój niskoemisyjnych i efektywnych technologii, wykorzystujących OZE i kogenerację. Duże znaczenie w tym zakresie ma europejska dyrektywa… View Summary +
This paper was written to assist the Public Service Commission of Arkansas as it seeks to remove barriers to entry for aggregators of distributed energy resources (DERs), encourage customer participation—the key to the success of DERs —and incentivize utility cooperation… View Summary +
Traditional “cost-of-service” regulation, where the rate of return is set on rate base, gives utilities incentives to invest in additional infrastructure to increase their own revenues, even when less expensive options are available to meet customers’ needs. The adoption of… View Summary +
The power sector’s shift from large, inflexible generation to smaller, more dispersed variable renewable resources has triggered a debate among some U.S. policymakers about reliability and the continued need for baseload power plants, such as coal and nuclear. Yet numerous… View Summary +
Die lebhafte Debatte um die „Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule“ bietet einen aufschlussreichen Einblick in die föderale US-Strommarktpolitik. Die genannte Vorschrift wurde von Energieminister Rick Perry im September 2017 vorgeschlagen. Ziel war die Einführung eines milliardenschweren Förderprogramms in großen Teilen der USA für… View Summary +
Rapid technology change means cleaner, lower-cost, and more resilient options for meeting customers’ energy needs are or soon will be available. Customers may soon have cost-effective options to meet their own energy needs through transactive platforms and markets. How can… View Summary +
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 +