Role of Government on China Smart Grid Construction

Abstract

With more and more attention are paid on energy security and environment, smart grid has become an important direction of future energy industry development all over the world. In order to fully exploit the role of government on the development of smart grid, this paper first discusses the insufficiency of government function execution during the construction of smart grid in China at present from the respects of smart grid planning, laws making, supervising, electric structure reform, and management function execution. Then this paper presents some suggestions on the fulfillment of government function on the construction of smart grid. Many measures should be taken from both macro and micro field to fulfill the government function on the construction of smart grid to realize healthy development of smart grid.