Interactions between renewable energy policy and renewable energy industrial policy: A critical analysis of China's policy approach to renewable energies

Zhang, Sufang; Andrews‐Speed, Philip; Zhao, Xiaoli; He, Yongxiu

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.063

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“…In the middle and long term, China's main tasks in developing the renewable energy industry are to establish complete and coordinated incentive policies for the renewable energy industry and gradually expand and stabilize the renewable energy market [43,44]. Whether the tasks can be successfully fulfilled depends on the coordination among renewable energy development on one hand, and economy development and environment protection on the other hand.…”

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confidence: 99%

Successes and Failures of China's Golden-Sun Program

Wang¹,

Luo²,

Kang³

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2017)

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Abstract. In 2009, the Chinese government released the policy about the Golden-Sun Program, deciding to provide investors with upfront subsidies prior to project construction with the special funds for renewable energy, with the aim to accelerate large-scale industrialization of PV power generation in China. This paper suggests four indicators used to assess the success and failure of the Golden-Sun Program: policy system design, effectiveness, administrative institution and time frame/development period. The results showed that: the success of the Golden-Sun Program is: fiscal subsidies play a notable role in promoting growth of China's PV market; it significantly improves the efficiency of constructing PV power generation facilities at home and provides clean energy to residents in rural areas without access to power;management and design of distributed PV power generation are improved significantly. The failure of the Golden-Sun Program is: lack of systematic design and effective coordination in policies; institutional deficiencies in policy design; obstacles to connecting user-side PV systems to the grid; lack of effective regulation leads to poor quality.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Successes and Failures of China's Golden-Sun Program

Wang¹,

Luo²,

Kang³

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2017)

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“…These bodies-including within the NDRC-are often competing for authorship (Zhang et al 2013). At the local level, in turn, implementation has become more decentralized as of 2014 (Zhao 2014).…”

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Introduction and Synthesis

2017

The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions

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Climate change is frequently referred to as one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. The authors of this chapter concur. In broad terms, the climate challenge is relatively straightforward. Global average temperatures are rising as a consequence of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. In the absence of deliberate and global action to substantially reduce and then eliminate (or even turn net negative) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, global temperature rise within this century is very likely to surpass two degrees Celsius (IPCC 2014), which is the (somewhat arbitrary) threshold set by the international community as a tolerable level. Continuation of current levels of emissions or continued growth in emissions throughout the twenty-first century could result in warming far above the two- degree threshold with very bad implications for the planet, for human societies, particularly poor people.

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“…Studies on the wind power operation and accommodation have different focuses and methods; some focus on the grid planning, construction and operation system analysis [18][19][20][21][22]; some center on the electricity market operation [23][24][25][26]; some discuss the coordination relationship between wind power characteristics and the electricity system [8,27]; some explain the flexibility of the electricity system [28][29][30]. Specifically, Pei et al conducted an in-depth analysis of the operational characteristics and market consumption of China's wind power, pointing out that the mismatch between supply structure of domestic power and wind power development as well as insufficient capacity of cross-regional power transmission are the main reasons for low China's wind power consumption.…”

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Why the Wind Curtailment of Northwest China Remains High

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Abstract:The total grid-connected installed capacity of wind power in northwest China has grown from 16,260 MW in 2013 to 43,290 MW in 2016; an increase of 88.7% each year. However, this region has suffered from increasingly serious wind curtailment since 2014, and the wind curtailment amount accounts for nearly a half of China's total. The wind curtailment rate of Gansu Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in this area has increased and remains high. This paper constructs an analytical model to explore the reasons of the high wind curtailment of these three provinces from the four aspects of the wind power supply capacity, demand, grid transmission capacity, power system flexibility and market mechanism and laws. The results show that the relationship between the wind energy distribution and supply and the local load is incompatible, which is the source causing the high wind curtailment in northwest China. On the one hand, the game between the local government and developers has driven the development of wind power bases. On the other hand, the electricity sector is growing slowly and oversupply of electricity is seen in many areas of China. The wind power grid of northwest China not only faces limit of grid transmission capacity, but also constraint of insufficient flexibility of the electricity system. Presently, China has not set up a market mechanism and subsidy mechanism for the peak load adjustment, thus the thermal power companies lack motivation to voluntarily adjust the peak load. Moreover, the regional segregation and market barriers are also obstacles for the wind power outward transmission.

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Interactions between renewable energy policy and renewable energy industrial policy: A critical analysis of China's policy approach to renewable energies

Cited by 137 publications

References 11 publications

Successes and Failures of China's Golden-Sun Program

Successes and Failures of China's Golden-Sun Program

Introduction and Synthesis

Why the Wind Curtailment of Northwest China Remains High

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