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Last Update2026-02-11
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Event Overview
The guidelines aim to refine the electricity pricing mechanism, ensuring it reflects supply and demand dynamics. They also establish a uniform national policy for billing and market risk management, standardize local price administration, and prohibit unauthorized preferential rates, thereby strengthening regulatory oversight.
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State Council of China Issues Guidelines to Improve National Unified Power Market System
The State Council of China has issued guidelines to improve the national unified power market system. The key points include refining the electricity pricing mechanism to better reflect supply and demand, ensuring prices capture the multifaceted value of power resources, establishing a uniform national policy for electricity billing and market risk management, standardizing local electricity price administration, prohibiting unauthorized preferential electricity rates, strengthening price regulation in natural monopoly sectors, and enhancing the transmission and distribution pricing system for regional and provincial grids. Additionally, it suggests exploring two-part or single capacity pricing models when conditions are suitable.