能源經(jīng)濟學研討會 

【總第76期】

An Overseas View of China’s New Electricity Reforms: Background, Direction, Likely Outcomes
本次能源經(jīng)濟學研討會邀請到美國匹茲堡大學Thomas G. Rawski教授做學術演講。 時間：10月26日，星期三，10:30—11:30
地點：中國人民大學明德主樓729會議室
報告摘要：     China’s electricity sector displays a surprising combination of growth, upgrading, and inefficiency. Technical indicators are excellent, but economic returns are weak. Improving efficiency will be difficult, as the sources of excess cost are deeply embedded in the industry’s structure and operational mechanism. Current reforms focus on three elements: regulating grid charges, encouraging direct transactions between generating companies and large end users, and injecting competition into retail electricity sales. Vigorous pursuit of these reforms seems likely to deliver sweeping and possibly unwelcome outcomes. Coal-fired thermal plants have considerable scope for cost reduction; success in reducing costs could power an increase in the share of electricity output from coal-fired thermal plants. China’s nuclear sector has scored significant breakthroughs in the international market, but the economic underpinnings of its domestic operations are in danger of collapsing.    作者簡介：     Thomas G. Rawski，美國匹茲堡大學經(jīng)濟學和歷史學教授。曾長期執(zhí)教于多倫多大學（1971-1985）。現(xiàn)為美國美中關系全國委員會委員（1987-）、China Quarterly編委（1991-）、China Reviews International編委（1994-）、China Economic Review編委（1995-）、The Global Economic Review編委(1996-)、Journal of Asian Business編委(1996-)、William Davidson Institute研究員（1997-）、The China Review顧問委員會委員（2001-）、亞洲研究協(xié)會金融委員會成員（2002-）。最新的著作有：China’s Great Economic Transformation（與Loren Brandt共同編輯，2008）、China’s Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia(與William W. Keller共同編輯，2007)。

    能源經(jīng)濟學研討會（Energy Economics Seminar）由中國人民大學經(jīng)濟學院能源經(jīng)濟系定期推出，旨在為研究中國能源經(jīng)濟問題的學者提供交流的平臺。     聯(lián)系人：宋楓（songfeng@ruc.edu.cn）  

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