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在全球能源格局的变革中，越来越多的国家意识到，通过热泵供暖器、热泵热水器、电炉等家用电器实现室内用能的电气化是一种更经济、更安全的减排脱碳路径。尽管天然气相对来说是较为清洁的能源选择，但仍然是一种会产生污染和碳排放的化石燃料。作为能源消耗的主要领域，建筑领域应该逐渐削减对天然气的依赖。… View Summary +
Shri Harpreet Singh Puthi Secretary Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) Chanderlok Building, 36 Janpath, New Delhi- 110001, India 10 Feb. 2024 Background We want to thank the Commission for this opportunity to comment on the Draft Notification (No.L-1/268/2022/CERC) on the… View Summary +
Stellungnahme zum Eckpunktepapier der Bundesnetzagentur Die gestiegenen Kosten des Stromnetzausbaus machen sich zunehmend in den Netzentgelten bemerkbar, die Bestandteil jeder Stromrechnung sind. Auswertungen zeigen, dass die verdichteten, städtischen Netzregionen günstiger sind als die ländlichen Netze. Aufgrund der Korrelation der Netzkosten… View Summary +
Electrifying long-haul freight across Europe can dramatically reduce emissions from transport to help meet climate goals. To advance the use of electric trucks, Member States will need to build more high-capacity charging, or ‘megawatt charging,’ infrastructure along core freight corridors. View Summary +
The Netherlands government has laid out ambitious plans to be climate neutral by 2050 and has engaged in multi-pronged efforts to meet this goal. It has successfully promoted the generation of renewable energy through the installation of utility-scale and household-level… View Summary +
国家发展改革委、国家能源局联合印发《关于建立煤电容量电价机制的通知》，决定自2024年1月1日起建立煤电容量电价机制，对煤电实行两部制电价政策。各个省已经制定了具体的细则实施容量电价，以期望减少煤电亏损，激励煤电支持保供，增加煤电灵活性改造。然而，除非这些容量补偿机制设计精准得当，否则可能导致不必要的风险，包括容量过剩、不合理的资源组合、过高的成本和排放，以及阻碍系统灵活性和减缓电力行业转型。… View Summary +
Brazil has excellent experience with policy regarding electricity accessibility. The Luz para Todos program, enacted in 2003, had connected 17.2 million rural Brazilians with electricity by 2023. But in some areas, particularly the Legal Amazon, challenges to electricity access persist. View Summary +
To add vast new amounts of solar, wind and other variable renewable generation, the electricity system will need to become far more flexible. Customers have a central role in achieving this, by adapting how and when they use electricity. This demand-side… View Summary +
A power purchase agreement (PPA) is a contract used by a purchasing entity to procure electricity from a project developer. This contract specifies the volume and price of the energy purchased and the duration of the agreement. “Renewables PPAs” specifically… View Summary +
2023年11月15日国家能源局综合司发布了《电力市场信息披露基本规则（征求意见稿）》。“统一全国电力市场信息披露机制，加强和规范信息披露工作”有助于深化电力体制改革、加快建设全国统一大市场。… View Summary +
In this Power System Blueprint deep dive, Dominic Scott and Monika Morawiecka discuss the merits of different types of two-sided contracts for difference (CfDs). Written in the style of a three-act Shakespearian play, the authors take a look at… View Summary +
Deployment of heat pumps is a key part of greenhouse gas reduction goals set out in the Inflation Reduction Act. In this paper, a collaboration between RAP and CLASP, the authors analyze impacts of the IRA on heat pump… View Summary +
Over the past decade, Southern China has been at the forefront of the development and implementation of electricity market rules. Beginning in 2022 and continuing through July 2023, the South China Energy Regulatory Office of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局南方监管局),… View Summary +
In a webinar discussion, Mark LeBel, Steve Kihm, Richard Sedano and Damali Harding highlighted a RAP paper exploring the policy, legal and financial aspects of performance incentive mechanisms and re-examined recent practices underlying cost-of-service ratemaking and the utility business… View Summary +