Research On The Government Regulation Of China Electric Power Industry

Electric power is the most important basic energy industry in the process of our national economic development. It plays a decisive role to improve our people’s life of social economic development. But as a social public utility, electric power industry has a strong natural monopoly. And the government needs to regulate a long-term effective management. In the eighty times last century, each country with the rapid development of economy and the stability improvement of electric power technology. These countries have a new understanding of the natural monopoly of electric power. And government regulation of electric power industry has been carried out in the world. Each Country has a common target to regulate the electric power, for example, to break the government monopoly, to promote competition in the power market, to improve the power generation efficiency and to reduce the electricity costs. Through the electric power industry government regulation to improve the generation, transmission, distribution and selling of electricity link, so as to improve the international competitiveness of various countries. In order to conform the development trend of the times, our country also studied a series of electric power regulation. In2002the "electricity system reform program" issued for our country electric power regulation and actions specified in the right direction. But today, the pace of government regulation of China’s electric power industry is slow, most regulation that early proposed were not achieved. Especially in recent years, with the rapid development of China’s economy, with the rapid growth in total energy consumption and the significant improvement of living standards of residents, the effective power regulation is more important. The government as the main body of the power industry’s supervision and regulation is shouldering the heavy burden. So, the importance of government regulation in the electric power industry is not the same in general. Electricity regulation can not only prevent the monopoly of the power industry in China, but also promote the stably development of China’s power production, transmission distribution and selling. So the research on government regulation of the electric power industry in China is an important and far-reaching issue.Electric power industry has developed for nearly half a century in China, but there are many problems in the process of its development. Such as:The power industry is lagging legislation. The management is multiple. The price regulation is not reasonable. The introduction of competition is difficult. The structure of energy distribution and consumption are imbalance. The transmission and distribution sectors are still consists of2oligopoly power grid companies. And the management is highly centralized controlled. But in those issues that related to the development of electric power,"The separation of plant and grid, the separation of transmission and distribution" were repeatedly mentioned in some papers that published by the government. It can be said that the problems of "The separation of plant and grid, the separation of transmission and distribution" are the most serious and the most difficult to solve. So I based on the study of the theory of government regulation and natural monopoly, by analyzing the nature of four links process of electric power industry and the status of the electric power industry, and focus on the research of status and problems of the separation of plant and network, the separation of transmission and distribution. Through the study on the government regulation of the power industry form foreign successful scheme, combined with the specific circumstances of the electricity regulation management in our country, through the comparative analysis, summarized the power regulation management of our views and suggestions. Such as perfecting the laws and regulations of China’s electric power industry Ensure the power regulation mechanism of regulatory independence. Establish the suitable system, government regulation of the electric power industry development Chinese reasonable electricity price regulation principle, the power generation sector energy optimization and introducing competition mechanism, the government regulation and industry structure layer in the face of power transmission and distribution separation etc..Our China’s research on government regulation in the electric power industry has developed for decades. The electric power industry has been tremendous development. Provide a steady stream of energy to support the development of our national economy growth. Therefore, in order to ensure the power industry of our country to better develop continuously, the government regulation management must advance with the times, improve its shortcomings, in order to promote our country electric power system can further healthy development...