China's unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global climate change increasingly calls for saving energy...

China's unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global climate change increasingly calls for saving energy...

China’s unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global climate change increasingly calls for saving energy...

The U.S. nuclear industry has overcome a challenging period during which low wholesale market prices threatened the survival of nuclear power plants (NPPs). From 2017 to 2019, several U.S. states initiated out-of-market support schemes to bolster the financial conditions of NPPs. This paper...

To gain institutional and technical know-how for a national carbon market, since 2013 China has experimented with eight regional carbon emission trading system (ETS) pilot programs. The prominence of these policy experiments and their unusual tradable performance standards (TPS) design have...

The electricity generating sector is the single largest source of climate altering pollution. A country aiming to meet its targets for a net-zero economy needs therefore to radically reduce the emissions stemming from this sector. Charging carbon emissions is the preferred market-friendly policy...