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本报告研究表明，全球许多国家和地区的供电公司都在将终端能效作为资源，用于满足客户对能源服务的需求。能效被视为是一种具有成本效益的方案，可替代对供电侧资源的投资（比如建设发电厂和电网扩容）。本篇文章列出利用能效作为电力系统资源的一系列好处，并且强调这一点在中国尤为重要，因为能效可以为减少空气污染作出贡献。本文建议中国政府应该尽快开展行动，为电网公司利用能效作为电力系统资源扫除障碍，并且建立政策和监管机制来促使通过推广电网公司开展的能效项目，… View Summary +
2014年6月，美国环保署提出了一项温室气体减排法草案—“清洁电力计划”，因美国国会中有人反对立法限制温室气体排放，所以美国环保署只能在《清洁空气法案》赋予的监管权限范围内提出该草案。美国环保署预计，到2030年，该计划的实施可使美国电力行业比2005年减少30%的二氧化碳排放。这一草案规划值得我们密切关注，因为它囊括了很多对中国非常有用的设计元素，特别是将能效作为资源的概念以及通过调整电厂调度、减少排放的实践做法。本文提供了“清洁电力计划”涵盖要素的整体介绍，并就几处设计亮点做出了分析，可以为中国的能源行业提供一些借鉴。… View Summary +
Thanks in large part to some recent guidance and proposed federal regulations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state and local air pollution regulators have a growing interest in using energy efficiency (EE) as a strategy to improve air… View Summary +
Energy efficiency (EE) is generally recognized as a least-cost option. However, the details of designing programs do not always lend themselves to easy consensus. These details include program size, cost recovery mechanisms, lost revenues, cost-allocation, and incentives. Adding other clean… View Summary +
In June 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued proposed greenhouse gas regulations called the Clean Power Plan. Because of opposition in the U.S. Congress to enacting legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, EPA used its existing regulatory… View Summary +
Half of Americans live in areas violating national health-based air quality standards. Coal- and gas-fired power plants are important contributors to the problem. The Clean Air Act has historically addressed power plants through regulation of smokestack emissions, employing “stovepiped,” pollutant-by-pollutant… View Summary +
This paper shows that, in several jurisdictions around the world, electricity utilities employ end-use energy efficiency as a resource in meeting their customers’ needs for energy services. Energy efficiency is seen as a cost-effective alternative to investing in supply-side resources,… View Summary +
This workbook is intended to serve as an illustrative model that shows how groups of energy efficiency measures can be bundled together to reduce energy demand, energy use in general, and ultimately the emissions that result from conventional power generation. View Summary +
The European Union’s (EU) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Directive (2009/31/EC) establishes a legal framework for the environmentally safe geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) to contribute to mitigating climate change. In March 2013, the European Commission launched a consultative… View Summary +
Renewable energy is one of the four building blocks outlined in the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, and states are likely to rely upon the production of renewable energy as a part of their efforts to control carbon in the electric… View Summary +
This paper examines revenue regulation, popularly known as decoupling, and the various elements of revenue regulation that can be assembled in numerous ways based on state priorities and preferences to eliminate the throughput incentive. This publication focuses on six utilities:… View Summary +
The publication of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from existing power plants under section 111(d) of the federal Clean Air Act in the Federal Register on June 18, 2014, marks the… View Summary +
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) recently called for a fresh look at standby rates for combined heat and power (CHP) systems, and demonstrated how poorly-designed standby rates can impede the adoption of CHP resources, while well-designed rates can encourage these… View Summary +