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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 Kraftwerke, die mindestens...
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 utility regulators best prepare for this changing world? On February 8, 2018, RAP host...
中国“十三五”规划提出要建立电力市场，加大改善空气质量的力度等目标。然而在实现规划提 出的能源和环境目标过程中，可能会导致意想不到的后果，包括污染的加剧，污染从一个地区 转移到另一个地区，以及中国可再生能源和新的高效火电厂利用不足等问题。 欧盟...
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 the rush to plan for more EVs, many are focusing on incentivising new investment in distribution networks to ac...
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....
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 seek to emulate thriving counterparts in Gujarat and turn to technology adoption, efficiency enhancement, and l...
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 is updated to accommodate new distributed activities, such as electric vehicle charging and distributed generat...
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 Transparenz bei diesem Thema. So ist es bei den Netzen in kei...
