Market Failures in Real-Time Metering

Policies to promote real-time metering (RTM) require more than showing benefits from more timely responses to variations in cost. They require positive externalities to imply that too few meters would be installed through private transactions. RTM presents no systematic externalities when utilities must serve peak period users, and may present negative externalities under some conditions. Positive externalities are likely when electricity is rationed through blackouts. RTM may or may not increase welfare when peak period wholesale markets are not competitive; a prohibition on RTM might be appropriate in such situations even if metering itself were costless.     

Price-maker型水电厂策略性报价

用古诺模型研究了Price-maker型水电厂在电力市场下的策略报价问题.将系统中各厂商的竞争简化为己方和虚拟对手组成的双人博弈,提出一种基于历史数据、分析对手行为的可行方法.该方法通过分析历史可获得数据,求取对手成本函数参数及系统的逆需求函数,由此获得合理的对手策略估计,并求取在此可能对手策略下的己方最优策略,从而达到己方收益最大的目标.     

广西洛东水电厂增机扩容可行性设计

通过对洛东水电厂的来水量、地质和经济指标等技术资料的分析,认为采用灯泡贯流式机组扩大其装机的容量是可行的。并介绍了洛东水电厂增机扩容的可行性设计情况。     

火电仿真技术研究

在电力行业中，计算机仿真一直是不可缺少的工具，它在减少损失、节约经费、提高效率、确保安全经济运行等方面发挥了巨大作用。主要介绍了计算机仿真技术在660MW火电站中的具体应用情况。以邯峰发电厂^#1机为对象，采用STAR-90仿真支撑系统，建立起660MW火电机组1：1仿真机，并在机组投产前建成，取得了良好的培训效果。论述了火电站仿真机未来的发展趋势，包括开发高精度机理性仿真数学模型以及真实的DCS仿真模型、进行性能计算与故障诊断、应用于热工人员培训及机组调试等。     

Regulating an Externality-Generating Utility Environmental Taxes Under Limited Information

Global warming is currently an important item on most nationalenvironmental agendas. In many countries, coal-fired electricity generatingstations represent an important source of greenhouse gases. We examinehow regulations to curb emissions affect public utility pricing regulationwhen regulators act non-cooperatively. We show that, when there is limitedinformation on fixed abatement costs, an environmental regulator prefersan emission tax over an output tax or a lump sum environmental tax. Thepublic utility regulator prefers the lump sum tax regime.     

Capacity,sustainability, and the community benefits of municipal utility ownership in the United States

ABSTRACT

Most literature on utility sustainability focuses on internal operations; this misses the role that utilities could play within a community. This study measures the impact of municipal ownership of water and electric utilities on the sustainability policymaking of local governments. I find that municipalities with government-owned water utilities adopt more sustainability measures than those with investor-owned service. Similarly, municipally-owned electric utilities have higher levels of energy sustainability in the community, but not in government operations. The utilities provide fiscal and technical capacity to municipalities. Interdepartmental coordination also strongly predicts sustainability policymaking. This study brings potential community benefits to the discussion of private investment in public service delivery.     

Price-Cost Margins and Profit Rates in New Zealand Electricity Distribution Networks Since 1994: the Cost of Light Handed Regulation

From 1994 to 2003, New Zealands corporatized electricity lines networks operated with no industry regulator, but under the spotlight of mandatory information disclosure. As a result there exists a large body of detailed, audited and publicly available accounting data on the financial performance of these businesses. Using that data, this paper finds that price-cost margins have widened substantially since deregulation. We estimate the extent to which light-handed regulation has allowed profits to exceed the levels which would have been acceptable under the old rate-of-return regulatory framework, and find that the answer is about $200 million per year, on an ongoing basis.We thank colleagues at Victoria University, and two anonymous referees for this journal, for constructive comments on this paper. Any remaining errors are entirely our responsibility.JEL classification: D21; K23; L11; L43; L51     

生态环境需水量对芹山水电站发电效益的影响

以福建省的芹山水电站为例,研究穆阳溪流域不同生态环境用水保证率下的生态环境需水量,估算不同生态环境用水量的发电效益损失,并对考虑不同比例生态环境用水量对水电站的发电量所产生的影响进行分析.结果表明:由于确定生态环境需水量的出发点和基本原理不同,用7Q10法、Tennant法、最小月径流法和NGPRP法计算的生态环境需水...     

水电机组一次调频性能评价探讨

针对水电机组一次调频现状,对一次调频的调节死区、负荷限幅等参数进行了分析,对一次调频的动态响应速度和稳定性等评价指标进行了探讨,给出了水电机组一次调频调节死区、负荷限幅、动态响应速度及响应稳定性的修改建议,并对出力保证系数这一指标阐述了新的考核方法。     

The political economy of metering agricultural tube wells in West Bengal,India

Unmetered electricity supply to agriculture has given rise to a unique and invidious water–energy–food nexus in India. Metering of agricultural consumers has been suggested as a way to break the nexus, but most states have not been able to meter farmers due to their opposition . The only exception is the state of West Bengal. Using primary data from a household survey conducted in 2010 when the metering process was still underway, this paper argues that farmers’ support for metering in West Bengal can be explained in terms of the economics of groundwater use and politics surrounding agriculture and groundwater in the state.