管理中西部電力部門的動態變化：電力轉移中西部地區車間

市場遷移的技術創新和清潔能源政策正在推動美國電力部門的基本轉型。然而，網格在很大程度上受一個數十年曆史的法律框架支配。新的監管和市場設計策略對於將電力部門與環境目標保持一致，同時確保負擔得起和可靠的服務。That challenge is the focus of Power Shift, a network of energy law professors and energy practitioners, hosted by the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program, Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the Center for Climate, Energy, Environment, and Economics at the University of North Carolina Law School. Since 2015, the group has convened in conjunction with meetings of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners to discuss grid changes, to pose related legal questions, and to foster a research agenda for power policy reform. The first regional meeting of Power Shift took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in December 2017. Participants discussed four critical grid issues in the Midwest: evolving stakeholder processes, power sector fleet transfer, the impact of electric cars on the grid, and responses to changing consumer demand. The range of potential research inspired by their discussion—including whether state regulatory processes help or hinder big shifts underway on the grid, how state climate goals affect regional generation patterns, how stakeholder processes and market trends interact, whether utilities should attempt to spark demand for electric vehicles, and whether customer demands or public policies are the driving force for change—points to the sea change in the U.S. power sector.