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Although some New England utilities offer modernized rates for special applications, like electric vehicles and battery storage, there is substantial room for improvement in time-varying residential pricing. This policy brief, the last in a series examining rate design issues across… View Summary +
Efficiency First policy needs to be effectively applied across the EU in order to meet decarbonisation goals. As is the case in many countries in Europe, households in Great Britain can benefit from public subsidies if they install renewable heating… View Summary +
Greater integration among regional power grids would lower electric sector emissions and power costs across eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, but coordination today is limited. A new report by an international team, led by RAP in collaboration… View Summary +
Hydrogen has an important role to play in the clean energy transition, but there are better options for decarbonising heating in our homes. The expression ‘to sell someone a pup’ comes from an old confidence trick, where a bag… View Summary +
本文着眼于支持到2050年能源行业转型的雄心勃勃的情景，讨论主要集中在近期和中期的实际操作上。我们将介绍同样正在为电力部门转型议程努力的其他国家相关讨论中的观点。我们还会讨论未来五年左右，就南方电网地区的制度背景和改革现状，在能源政策、市场设计、规划和相关政策方面的务实步骤。我们的分析采用整体视角，考虑了减排、成本降低和可靠性之间的相互关联的挑战。 因此，我们进行了广泛的讨论，包括市场改革，规划改革，可再生能源并网，灵活性，需求侧资源的开发，电气化政策，零售定价和排放价格等措施，这些措施在理想情况下应共同构成协调一致的总体政策的一部分。 “南方能源观察”为本报告特别推出连载版，分别为“规划投资如何与市场衔接”，“广东现货市场如何进阶”，以及“南方区域市场怎么建”。本文原文为英文，也可在我们网站上下载。… View Summary +
The five-province Southern Grid region has long been a testing ground for new policies and reforms. Most recently, the central government asked the region to become the first integrated regional electricity spot market. Starting from the central government’s call for… View Summary +
Cuando varias centrales térmicas cierran simultáneamente, aproximadamente 4’6 GW el 30 de junio de 2020, sería de esperar algún… View Summary +
When a bunch of thermal power plants shut down simultaneously, around 4.6 GW on 30 June 2020, one would normally expect to hear concerns about emerging blackouts. But not in Spain. The recent closure of half of the remaining… View Summary +
Two keen observers of the power sector, Jigar Shah and Cheryl LaFleur, have noted that the responses to the rotating power outages in California on August 14 and 15 became a Rorschach test of individual preexisting biases. Before… View Summary +
Government officials and state-owned energy enterprises in China are currently debating another wave of coal power investment, despite a severely diminished business case for the technology. These companies that own and operate China’s coal fleet are already facing … View Summary +
