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The resources below are offered as part of our Complying with Environmental Regulations Knowledge Management Series. These papers provide perspectives on utility resource planning and ongoing portfolio management. Addressing the Effects of Environmental Regulations:… View Summary +
In this commentary for Climate Spectator, RAP senior advisor David Crossley set the record straight on China’s energy efficiency accomplishments. Since the 1980’s, the Chinese government has established a series of wide-reaching energy conservation and energy efficiency policies. As a… View Summary +
In comments to the European Commission, RAP emphasized the importance of establishing effective market mechanisms to encourage investment in resources capable of providing critical system services, including energy efficiency and demand response resources. RAP also recommends reframing the issue to… View Summary +
The debate in Europe over the need for ‘traditional’ quantity-based capacity market designs to provide investment is now—appropriately– evolving into discussions over how to reward capacity with sufficient flexibility to reliably operate power systems with rapidly growing shares of variable… View Summary +
The “Sino-US Workshop on NOx Emissions Control” was held in Kunming, China, on September 25-26, 2012. The purpose of the workshop was to enhance the exchange of ideas between China and the US, and to improve the total emissions control… View Summary +
In this paper, RAP extracts information from our work in six states in the U.S. to examine state practices for integrated resource planning and energy efficiency. We examine how these state practices work together and are in some cases converging. View Summary +
When energy regulators plan, approve utility investments, and make other regulatory decisions without incorporating environmental considerations, ultimately more costly supply options or solutions can be chosen, opportunities for less costly options can be passed by, and money, time, and resources… View Summary +
Measures using demand-side resources comprise actions taken on the customer’s side of the meter to change the amount and/or timing of electricity use in ways that will provide benefits to the electricity supply system. Nearly four decades of experience in… View Summary +
本文借鉴国际经验与最佳实践,提供对中国电力体制改革下一步的建议。我们对电力改革的建议涉及六个关键领域:(1)规划与竞争;(2)发电;(3)煤炭质量;(4)销售电价;(5)电网公司;(6)机构与管理。世界各地的政府都在尝试用不同的方式解决电力可靠性问题,提高终端能效,扩大可再生能源的使用并保证可再生能源并网。虽然中国的情况与世界上大部分国家不同,国际经验仍然能够帮助中国做出更好的选择,避免不必要的问题。… View Summary +
Energy issues are environmental issues, and environmental issues increasingly are energy issues. This link is inescapable: energy decisions have profound environmental and public health impacts, and energy-related emissions are changing the heat balance of Earth. The purpose of this paper… View Summary +