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June 18, 2015
Brussels, Don’t Leave Customer Participation in the Electricity Market to the Incumbents!
- Philip Baker
Allowing customers to participate directly in electricity markets is crucial both to making those markets more efficient and to reducing the costs of integrating renewable energies. The Commission’s Energy Union Market Design Initiative currently under development represents a unique opportunity… View Summary +
June 1, 2015
The Clean Power Plan: Just Say, “No Regrets”
- John Shenot ,
- David Farnsworth
Much of the controversy associated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan has to do with disputes about whether the agency has the authority to set greenhouse gas emissions limits for power plants based only on… View Summary +
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May 29, 2015
A Reliability History Lesson
- Christopher James
A new discipline—environmental history—recently came to my attention while helping my Chinese colleagues develop plans to manage air quality. They wanted to know what Los Angeles did in the 1950s and 1960s to clean up its air and what London… View Summary +
May 22, 2015
Complying with the Clean Power Plan While Delivering Affordable, Reliable Power
- Ken Colburn ,
- John Shenot
Yesterday, the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) released an important new resource: Implementing EPA’s Clean Power Plan: A Menu of Options (disclosure: RAP provided technical assistance and helped write the Menu). We believe the… View Summary +
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April 30, 2015
Chinese Government Releases Major Policy Guidance on Renewable Integration and Related Issues
- Max Dupuy ,
- Kevin Porter ,
- Wang Xuan
In late March, the National Development and Reform Council (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) jointly issued Guidance on Improving Power Sector Operation to Enable More Generation and Full Generation of Clean Energy. This document followed… View Summary +
April 29, 2015
中国电力报采访稿声明
声明:睿博能源智库于2015年3月28日刊登在“中国电力报”的专访“寻找安全可靠成本经济解决方案”,以及特稿“将能效作为发电厂的能源资源”,由于某些原因,未能准确反映我们的观点,现将应刊登稿件发布如下,以作澄清。 中国电力报: 您对这份方案的总体感觉是什么?可以进行一个总体评价吗?… View Summary +
April 18, 2015
Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need?
- Michael Hogan ,
- Michael O’Boyle ,
- Sonia Aggarwal
Competitive wholesale power markets are designed to sustain needed investment through market participants hedging risks in response to transparent pricing in the energy and ancillary services markets. But in practice, it’s been a challenge to realize market prices fully reflective… View Summary +
April 9, 2015
Tracking Renewable Energy for Compliance with the Clean Power Plan
Since the rule’s proposal in June 2014, Clean Power Plan compliance discussions have been weighing the potential benefits of regional versus single-state approaches, and balancing possible lower program costs and administrative burdens against state concerns over compromising sovereignty. More recently,… View Summary +
March 23, 2015
A New Framework for China’s Power Sector
- Max Dupuy ,
- Frederick Weston
The Chinese government has just finalized Deepening Reform of the Power Sector, a policy document co-signed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the State Council. The Chinese media have anticipated this document for months,… View Summary +
February 16, 2015
India Launches Renewable Electricity Roadmap 2030
The Government of India has significantly revised its ambitions for renewable electricity, now aiming for 100 GW of solar energy by 2022, and 40 GW of wind by 2019. This is a huge leap in ambition and puts this fast-growing… View Summary +