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This brief paper reviews rate design approaches used by vertically integrated utilities. Jim Lazar discusses elements common to vertically integrated utilities across the U.S., including the establishment of customer classes, seasonal and time-of-use rates, inclining block rates, critical peak pricing… View Summary +
This short paper examines how electricity rates are designed in competitive markets. Wilson Gonzalez outlines and provides examples of wholesale generation auction processes and results, reviews capacity markets and the role of regional transmission organizations and independent system operators, and… View Summary +
Jim Lazar makes the case against straight fixed/variable rate design, in which all costs claimed to be fixed are recovered in a monthly charge, and only those considered variable are recovered on a per kilowatt-hour basis. This approach stabilizes utility… View Summary +
Michigan, like many other states, faces the concurrent forces of emerging technologies, changing economics of fuel sources, new environmental regulations, aging infrastructure, and regional wholesale electric market influences. To address these challenges and ensure successful implementation of the state’s energy… View Summary +
电力需求侧管理杂志于2015年7月在环球揽萃栏目节选刊登了睿博能源智库受世界银行委托撰写的报告。基于对美国电力行业监管的经验,文章介绍了美国监管机构及其职能,并结合实例深入地阐述了美国在能效资源的获取、定价和融资以及与此相关的电网公司收入监管、激励机制方面的最佳实践。初步探究了需求响应和储能技术在美国的应用以及面临的挑战。文章的最后也简要地概括了美国区域温室气体减排行动(RGGI)特别是收入循环利用开发能效资源的经验。… View Summary +
As utilities and regulators consider their strategies for complying with greenhouse gas emissions limits under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) forthcoming Clean Power Plan (CPP), natural gas has an important role to play. But a “dash to gas” approach… View Summary +
Chinese government involvement in energy efficiency commenced in the 1980s and has become the largest and most comprehensive government-sponsored suite of energy efficiency programs in the world. In 2011, the government placed an energy efficiency obligation on the two large… View Summary +
中国政府参与能效始于20世纪80年代,现已演变成为世界上规模最大且最全面的政府资助的能效项目。2011年, 政府针对国家电网公司和南方电网公司提出了能效义务(EEO)要求,这两家大型国有企业负责输配电、售电业务,其终端用户遍及中国大部分地区。EEO要求电网企业的年度电力电量节约原则上不低于有关电网企业售电营业区内上年售电量的0.3%、最大用电负荷的0.3%。电网企业的能效义务是从现有政府主导的能效领域中分离出来的,以前的政府干预是一种“广撒网”式的产业政策,主要是为了在政府的推动下实现技术升级,而能效义务则是更专注于电力行业的,并由电网公司负责实施。本文是睿博能源智库“中国政策报告”系列中最新一本报告,文中介绍了有关电网公司能效义务的政策及项目发展,详细叙述了电力需求侧管理的实施并讨论了电网公司在满足电力电量指标时的节能绩效。最后,这篇文章概括了最近政府在电力体制改革方面的新举措,这些措施会促使电网公司逐步利用能效作为电力系统的一项资源。… View Summary +
The Power Sector Reform guidance issued in March recognizes the need for a major revamp of power sector planning, and official announcements indicate that the 13th Five-Year Plan is taking up the task. This will be… View Summary +
Utilities face unprecedented changes in the way power is generated and delivered. With the ramp-up in distributed generation, energy efficiency and demand response, electric vehicles, smart appliances, and more, the industry must rethink its rate structures to accommodate and encourage… View Summary +