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Yogi Berra famously had a quote for every occasion. If asked to describe the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s February 9 stay of the U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), I’d bet he’d say, “… View Summary +

近年来，随着我国经济发展，能源消费不断增加，这一方面保障了我国经济发展和人民生活水平的提高，另一方面也带来巨大的污染物排放，对环境和人民身体健康的破坏日益严重。电力行业是能源消费和污染物排放的大户，是全国节能减排工作的重点。过去几年中，提高能效、加强火电厂污染排放治理以及发展清洁能源等措施都加快了电力行业的低碳化。 然而电力行业节能减排工作仍有很多问题，包括电力行业不同电厂的能效水平存在巨大差别，但是高能效机组和低能效机组利用小时相近，没有区别对待；风电和光伏建设迅速，但是其利用状况堪忧，已在部分地区出现大面积弃风弃光的现象，抵消了可再生能源发展的效果；电力行业盈利水平波动过大，导致对投资预期不确定，电力企业纷纷跨行业投资，影响了电力行业的稳定发展。 最近，长策智库受睿博能源智库委托完成了… View Summary +

While the U.S. Supreme Court’s temporary stay on enforcement of the Clean Power Plan has grabbed headlines recently, it’s important that we read deeper, and consider the broader context, of which the CPP is only one part. In recent years,… View Summary +

The electric industry is in transition and some jurisdictions are reconsidering the role of the utility and private enterprises offering products and services to customers. New companies are offering services and products, including energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed generation,… View Summary +

Ten years ago, the most aggressive electric efficiency efforts in the country were achieving first-year electric savings of about 1.0 percent of annual sales. Today, at least five different states have—or plan to—double those levels of savings, achieving between 2.0… View Summary +

Data suggest that the electric power sector’s long march toward decarbonization was already well underway before the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) rulemaking, let alone the final rule’s compliance period, which doesn’t begin until… View Summary +