CCER relaunch is imminent with methodologies under review
On June 29, 2023, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) held its monthly press conference and announced that it
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China’s power system institutional reform: development and optimization of transmission and distribution tariff
In May 2023, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Notice on the Third Supervision Cycle of the
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Review of China national carbon market in 2022
The year 2022 marked the first full year that China’s national ETS was operational, as trading began in H2 2021.
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The development and operation mechanism of the green power market in China
In February 2023, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and the National Energy Administration
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30-60 carbon targets provide new opportunities for China’s pumped storage development
With the large-scale development of wind power and solar PV, the government proposes to build a new-type power system with
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Overview of the Spot Power Market Rules (Draft)
On November 25, the National Energy Administration (NEA) issued two important documents for the construction of the spot power market
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Hydro projects key to power security – By Han Wenke (China Daily)
Han Wenke – The former director of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission. The middle and
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Energy transformation key to clean heating – By Han Wenke (China Daily)
Han Wenke – The former director of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission. Replacing fossil
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China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality “1+N” policy system has been basically established
As of August 2022, under the framework of the “1+N” policy system for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the State
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Progress on the spot power market development in China
Since 2017, China has established 14 provincial spot power market pilots, of which five pilots in southern China (i.e., Guangdong),
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