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Cheap agricultural electricity has bedevilled the Indian power sector for decades, but enhanced agricultural demand-side management won’t solve the problem alone Virtually everyone with a working knowledge of the Indian power sector will agree that one of the sector’s biggest… View Summary +
If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. The Indian power sector is experiencing unprecedented changes, visible in several ways: Through the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act. Financial challenges faced by the… View Summary +
For some time now I have been struck by the irony of the European Commission’s chosen name for its building renovation policy package, the “renovation wave,” given that increasing the rate of renovation has been like pushing water uphill. Currently,… View Summary +
The European Union has committed to a net-zero economy by 2050. To get there, it must decarbonise the building stock, which accounts for 36% of EU carbon emissions. The current rate of renovation, however, is only one-third of that needed. View Summary +
How do we take Europe’s building stock to net-zero by 2050? Currently, only around 1% of the building stock is renovated each year. Even worse, only 0.2% of the renovated floor area undergoes a deep renovation that saves more than… View Summary +
The need for electric vehicle charging infrastructure has emerged as a key concern for the large-scale electrification of road transport, which is crucial for decarbonising Europe’s transport sector. Where and how public charging infrastructure is built can pave the way for… View Summary +
理解碳市场和电力市场之间的相互作用以及它们之间的相互影响——是两者良好设计的关键。国际经验表明，以孤立的政策设计电力市场和碳市场不会带来最佳结果。协同设计这些方案有助于市场尽可能经济有效，并确保碳排放计划以尽可能低的成本为终端用户和整个电力部门实现目标。 碳价格可以通过以下方式减少电力部门的排放量:(1)改变电力部门的调度(即系统运行)；(2)影响有关发电厂和其他部门资源的投资(和撤资)决策；(3)改变能源需求。本文研究了这些相互作用，并提出电力市场如何适应以最大限度地提高碳价格的有效性。作者为中国的决策者，特别是设计碳市场的决策者提供了建议和意见。主要的发现可以总结为： 经济(或优先)调度极大地增强了碳市场的有效性，在这种调度中，发电厂的运行决策是基于其相对运行成本。实现经济调度的方法之一是实施设计良好的电力市场。 确保电力市场设计的其他要素正确，使碳市场既有效又具备经济性。这些元素包括发电补偿，市场监测和监管，减缓碳价对电力消费者的影响。 碳价格的影响可以通过碳收入的使用方式大大增强。将碳收入用于低碳资产(特别是终端能效和可再生能源)的投资，可以使碳价格本身的作用增加好几倍。 即使在已经建立了复杂的电力市场和碳市场的国家，电力部门规划仍然是能源和环境政策的关键组成部分。规划必须与碳市场设计和电力市场设计相结合。 在零售电价中反映电力生产的真实潜在成本(包括碳成本)将有助于碳市场减少排放。 本文于6月19日（上），20日（下）刊登于《南方能源观察》。 This paper is also available in English. View Summary +
A year ago, I announced that we had replaced our six-year-old, reliable gas boiler with an air source heat pump. “Ripping out a perfectly well functioning gas boiler before the end of its natural life and replacing it with a… View Summary +
As municipal policymakers take increasingly active roles in moving their cities through the energy transition, they need to know their way around their states’ utility regulatory landscape. RAP and our partners at the Building Electrification Initiative (BEI) tackled this… View Summary +
While across the country America’s schools have been shuttered this spring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sun continues to shine. More than 1,000 megawatts of installed solar capacity from nearly 5,500 K-12 school buildings continues to generate… View Summary +
