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Die lebhafte Debatte um die „Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule“ bietet einen aufschlussreichen Einblick in die föderale US-Strommarktpolitik. Die genannte Vorschrift wurde von Energieminister Rick Perry im September 2017 vorgeschlagen. Ziel war die Einführung eines milliardenschweren Förderprogramms in großen Teilen der USA für… View Summary +
The European Council’s proposals on the internal energy market fundamentally weaken the framework that is needed to deliver an integrated market that will benefit European energy consumers, write Philip Baker and Christos Kolokathis from the global energy policy advisors Regulatory… View Summary +
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On a recent Tuesday morning, we had a blackout here in Key West. Five Brothers Grocery, the best Cuban coffee shop in town, is just around the corner, and owner Heriberto “Pepe” Paez was out of the café con leche… View Summary +
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Rapid technology change means cleaner, lower-cost, and more resilient options for meeting customers’ energy needs are or soon will be available. Customers may soon have cost-effective options to meet their own energy needs through transactive platforms and markets. How can… View Summary +
If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. State and federal utility regulators have traditionally controlled the electric power industry through their decisions. But rapid technology change means cleaner, lower-cost, and more resilient… View Summary +
中国“十三五”规划提出要建立电力市场,加大改善空气质量的力度等目标。然而在实现规划提 出的能源和环境目标过程中,可能会导致意想不到的后果,包括污染的加剧,污染从一个地区 转移到另一个地区,以及中国可再生能源和新的高效火电厂利用不足等问题。 欧盟和美国的监管机构在试图建立或放开电力市场,同时改善空气质量,减少温室气体排放时,也曾面临着相互矛盾的政策和监管选择。在这些地区,政策实施的成功与否,取决于如何回答以下这些问题: • 监管机构应该如何对待新建火力发电厂? • 监管机构应如何处理现有火电厂? • 随着电力市场的发展,应采用哪些环境标准? 欧盟和美国在改革电力市场和改善空气质量方面持续了几十年的改进,对这些地区能源和环境原则的分析,为中国现今提供了可参考的意见。首先,必须按绝对量来考虑空气污染:即必须要坚持减排吨数。单靠强度目标不足以实现中国的目标。其次,新电厂必须要经过严格的审批程序。在超过公共健康标准的大气限域,减排的吨数必须要多于新建电厂增加的量。最后,要求现有电厂必须在规定日前达到排放标准,否则必须停止运行。 本文介绍了来自欧洲和美国的诸多案例分析,说明能源和环境监管机构如何应对类似今天中国政策制定者和监管机构所面临的挑战。从这些经验中汲取教训,对今天的中国可能大有益处。本文还讨论了实现中国空气质量和电力行业改革目标的风险,例如各地执行不均,孤立的责任制度阻碍成功,电力行业改革可能引起空气质量恶化,以及依赖给企业和消费者带来高成本的空气质量治理措施等。最后部分提出了有助于改善空气质量的电力行业改革政策。 点击可进入英文版… View Summary +
Declining costs for electric vehicles (EVs) make the prospect of a surge in EVs on the power system seem imminent. Policymakers are understandably excited at the prospect of decarbonising road transport, and the grid services that EV’s can provide. In… View Summary +
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In a RAP webinar held on 31 January 2018, Christos Kolokathis and Andreas Jahn demonstrated how smart network tariff design is a powerful tool to help regulators meet Europe’s Energy Union goals. View Summary +
This article, published by Energy Research & Social Science, unpacks the institutional bottlenecks and path dependency holding back the energy transition in Gujarat and Rajasthan. As heavily-indebted electricity distribution companies in Rajasthan… View Summary +
When kids hear the fairy tale Chicken Little, they learn that a confused little bird is hit on the head with an acorn and concludes the sky is falling. It then manages to convince a handful of other animals of… View Summary +
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