Electric Regulatory Commission: unswervingly promote the reform of electric power market

Xinhua Beijing, March 27 (reporter Zheng Shike) The director of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission Tan Rongyao 27th in the China Electric Power Enterprise Federation hosted the economic situation and electric power development analysis forecast this year, change the way of development, we must unswervingly promote the power market reform. He said that in the current and future period, we should promote fair and open power grids and promote the construction of electricity market.　　While continuing to explore the power generation competition, efforts should be made to foster multiple purchasing bodies, focusing on direct trading by large users and gradually expanding the scope of bilateral transactions. Electricity price reform is the core of electric power system reform, and it is also the important link of solving coal electricity contradiction. He said that an important task of the current tariff reform is to study the development of independent transmission and distribution prices, this is not only helpful to standardize the profit model of power grid enterprises and the healthy development of power grid enterprises, but also promote the construction of electricity market, straighten out the mechanism of electricity price formation, and make the electricity price reflect the scarcity of resources and the relationship between market supply and demand.　　Fundamentally solve the coal electricity price contradiction. The reform of rural electric power system is regarded as a breakthrough to promote the reform of electricity system.　　Tan Rongyao said that in order to rationalize the investment system of rural power grid and the relationship between agricultural power enterprises ' property rights, we should co-ordinate urban and rural power grids and explore the establishment of new rural electric power management system and enterprise organization. In cultivating the main body of electricity market, Tan Rongyao that, not only to do (power generation) plant (electricity) network separate, in the power generation link to introduce market competition mechanism, but also to further rationalize the structure of the industry, in power generation and placing electricity link to cultivate qualified market body, gradually form more buy more sell market pattern.　　At present, we should speed up the reform of the main business and the separation of the power industry, as well as the reform of the tertiary industry and diversified enterprises to promote the market fair competition. He also said that in order to speed up the government's capacity-building and improve the industry management mechanism, the power regulator should increase its supervision over the monopolistic business in particular.