S1-EP 036 . China’s Power Outages: Temporary Episodes or Consequences of Energy Regulation?
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The recent power outages in both industrial manufacturing and residential areas across some regions of China may be a result of various and differentiated causes, such as the high cost of coal and the central government controlling the growth of energy consumption in heavy industries. What about other reasons? REEI’s two researchers , Zhao and Lin, argue that the lack of market-based electricity tariff, power grid’s resilience to accommodate big share of renewable electricity, inflexibility of central regulation in controlling total annual energy consumption and variable energy intensity in provincial level also play a big part in recent power outages.
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