Three provinces in Chongqing, Jiangsu Province, awarded direct power purchase pilot transmission and distribution price

Xinhua Beijing, June 4 (Xinhua Zheng) The National Electricity Regulatory Commission 3rd released a message said, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Chongqing Power Users and power generation enterprises direct trading pilot transmission and distribution price has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.　　This means that the country this year to promote the pilot transmission and distribution price reform in the three provinces and cities essay.　　The approval request of the Development and Reform Commission, the electricity user and the power generation enterprise direct transaction electricity transmission and distribution price implementation two electricity price, the basic electricity price carries out the local provincial power grid current sale Electricity Price table in the large industrial electricity basic electricity price standard. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the pilot method of direct electricity purchase, after the approval of the transmission and distribution prices, the participating provinces and municipalities also need to submit to the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Bureau the pilot scheme for direct trading of power users and power generation enterprises and the specific objects of　　After the approval of the three departments can formally carry out electricity users and power generation enterprises direct trading. The pilot of direct purchase is regarded as an attempt to reform the market of electricity price in China, aiming at breaking the monopoly of the electric power market and invigorating the power markets.　　and the authorized transmission and distribution price, that is, the power grid enterprises to collect "electricity tolls", has been considered the direct purchase of electric power pilot to advance the biggest difficulties. Tan Rongyao, a spokesman for the Electricity Regulatory Commission, had previously said that the reason for the slow pace of the direct purchase of electricity is the price standard dystocia. "The pilot work on direct electricity acquisition by large users has been slow, mainly because of the lack of substantive content in the pilot programmes reported everywhere, especially the lack of price standards for transmission and distribution." The Commission has requested the pilot provinces to submit the transmission and distribution price standards as soon as possible, but the progress is not satisfactory. Recently announced the development and Reform Commission on the 2010 to deepen the economic restructuring of the key work made clear that this year to complete the power grid enterprise separation reform, the introduction of transmission and distribution system reform pilot work, showing that power transmission and distribution pricing is expected to become a breakthrough in electricity price reform.