A Research On Price Regulation Of Chinese Electricity Transmission And Distribution Network

The electricity industry is one kind of very important infrastructural facilities with complex economical characters, and plays an extremely important role in the development of national economy and modern society. And the governmental regulations are abundant. Just for the above reason, the competition and regulation of electricity industry has becoming the focus of the reform of Chinese electricity regulation and getting more and more attention of scholars in fields such as industrial economics and regulatory economics, etc. It is one of the most active subjects in those research fields, and is also the principal focus of the reform of Chinese electricity industry. The different links of electricity are with different technical and economical characters. It is possible to introduce competition into electricity generation and sale links which are deregulation. The electricity transmission and distribution links are still monopolistic which should be strictly regulated in a long time. So the government should implement the strict rules and regulations, but the method may innovate. It is of great significance to improve the effect of governmental regulations of electricity transmission and distribution links which is exactly the reason why this thesis selects this topic.This thesis mainly uses methods such as the positive research and comparative analysis, and has done a lot of work on past achievements. More importantly, this thesis has made an attempt and an innovative thinking on the price regulation.Being different from the past achievements took all the links of electricity as research object, this thesis chooses electricity transmission and distribution links as the object. The logic structure of this thesis is"question-analysis-solution". Starting with the survey of research achievements on the price regulation of electricity both domestic and aboard, then this thesis expounds and proves the reason why the electricity transmission and distribution links should be strictly regulated. The concrete analytical launches from the characters of electricity transmission and distribution links and the situation and defect of price regulation. This thesis makes an analysis of the experiences and lessons of price regulation on electricity transmission and distribution links in America and England which are of certain reference value for us. The most important part of this thesis is chapter 5. In chapter 5 the author summarizes the objective, principles, strategies of price regulation on electricity transmission and distribution links and makes several proposals which are of great meaning for the price regulation practice.