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A regulatory policy to promote renewable energy consumption in China: Review and future evolutionary path

Yongxiu He, Yang Xu, Yuexia Pang, Huiying Tian and Rui Wu

Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 89, issue C, 695-705

Abstract: Renewable energy has become the world's strategic choice to solve environmental pollution, address the energy crisis and achieve social sustainable development. The establishment of a regulatory system coincides with the development stage of renewable energy and electricity market operation is significant in standardizing the market competition and guaranteeing healthy development of renewable energy in China. This paper analyses the current situation of renewable energy development and the existing renewable energy regulation system in China, pointing out that the main problems restricting renewable energy development are institutional mechanisms and market factors. The existing regulatory mechanisms also have deficiencies, such as the inclination towards economic regulation and the lack of a market adjustment mechanism. This paper proposes that China should comprehensively consider the renewable energy development stage, electricity market trading mechanisms and other factors in electricity regulatory requirements when policy making, actively exploring a new renewable energy regulation model adapted to different development phases. In addition, this paper suggests China's regulatory policy path based on the forecasting of renewable energy developing models.

Keywords: Complex power structure; Electricity regulation; Renewable energy consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.12.047

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