Inconsistencies between China's wind power development and grid planning: An institutional perspective

Luo, Guoliang; Zhi, Fei; Zhang, Xinying

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2012.04.022

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“…Our research results challenges the dominant state-led understanding of China's fast RE development and supports a host of recent research that has shown tensions and competitions between actors during China's wind and solar power development (Luo et al, 2012;Dai, 2015;Dent, 2015;Luo et al, 2016;Cai and Aoyama, 2018;Shen and Xie, 2018). For example although the central government held ambitious goals for wind power, these goals were not achieved before 2007.…”

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confidence: 72%

Niche Acceleration Driven by Expectation Dynamics Among Niche and Regime Actors: China’s Wind and Solar Power Development

2020

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This paper addresses the question how does the alignment of expectations between niche and regime actors unfold during niche development process, and how it shapes the niche development process? In this paper we offer a theoretical framework with three alignment patterns: strong, medium-strong and weak alignment, based on niche and regime actors' expectation structures. The research aims to establish whether the alignment patterns match three distinct stages of niche development: slow niche development; moderate niche development and substantial niche acceleration. We propose a 16% threshold in terms of adoption for niche acceleration. We apply the conceptual framework to two long-term cases, of wind and solar power development in China between 2000 and 2017. These present two independent cases with different stages of niche development during the studied period, but in the end both show niche acceleration. Our two cases suggest that although alignment patterns between both cases differ, they match niche development phases. Strong alignment does go hand in hand with niche acceleration. Overall, this paper contributes to both a conceptual and methodological understanding of how the alignment patterns between niche and regime actors' expectations contribute to niche acceleration.

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confidence: 72%

Niche Acceleration Driven by Expectation Dynamics Among Niche and Regime Actors: China’s Wind and Solar Power Development

2020

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“…Several reports and studies agree that these challenges have arisen due to a lack of coordination between stakeholders in China's wind turbine industry (e.g. Jiang 2011;Luo, Zhi, and Zhang 2012;REN21 2009;Zhang et al 2009). Nevertheless, we still lack a detailed understanding of the governing mechanisms behind the rapid growth of the wind industry.…”

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confidence: 99%

Fragmentation, Centralisation and Policy Learning: An Example from China's Wind Industry

Korsnes

2014

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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This paper seeks to understand what government mechanisms have allowed China's wind industry to grow as fast as it has over the past ten years. Instead of formal rules and regulations, this paper focuses on specific sets of institutional conditions that have been crucial in the process of high-speed implementation of wind energy in China. Specifically, fragmentation and centralisation, together with policy experimentation and policy learning, have been fundamental for policy flexibility and institutional adaptability. The paper illustrates that there are benefits and disadvantages to these characteristics, and that inherent qualities of China's governing system that lead to rapid growth overlap with those that lead to challenges in terms of quality and long-term performance.

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“…Several important barriers are identified. For example, Luo, Zhi and Zhang [12] found that the inconsistence between wind farms development and grid planning largely leads to the constraints of grid integration. Zhao et al [10] found that the inflexibility of the feed-in tariff and the lack of grid integration code are among the key barriers.…”

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The Economics of Wind Power in China and Policy Implications

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Abstract:In 2009, the implementation of feed-in tariff (FIT) and attractive public subsidies for onshore wind farms aroused great investment enthusiasm and spurred remarkable development of wind power in China. Meanwhile, rapid learning-by-doing has significantly cut down the cost of wind turbines and the capital cost of wind farms as well. Therefore, it is the right time to examine the appropriateness of the existing FIT policy for wind power in China. In this paper, we employ the analytical framework for levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) to model the generation cost of wind power. Results show that the existing FIT policy is attractive to investors, but serious curtailment and turbine quality issues could make wind power unprofitable. Meanwhile, rapid substantial decreases in the cost of wind power have made it competitive to coal power in 2013, implying that it is possible and necessary to reform the FIT policy for new wind farms. In the future, energy policies for onshore wind power in China could be concentrated on reducing the integration cost, so as to reduce the overall system cost.

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Inconsistencies between China's wind power development and grid planning: An institutional perspective

Cited by 35 publications

References 4 publications

Niche Acceleration Driven by Expectation Dynamics Among Niche and Regime Actors: China’s Wind and Solar Power Development

Niche Acceleration Driven by Expectation Dynamics Among Niche and Regime Actors: China’s Wind and Solar Power Development

Fragmentation, Centralisation and Policy Learning: An Example from China's Wind Industry

The Economics of Wind Power in China and Policy Implications

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