Resource Adequacy Assessment for the East China Grid: Policy Interventions and Contingent Scenarios for 2030
Power Transformation Lab (mrdavidson AT ucsd.edu)
Figure: Yearly interprovincial and interregional transmission for ECG, 2022. China’s East China Grid (ECG)—covering Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Fujian—sits at the center of one of the country’s most economically important and electricity-intensive regions. As demand continues to grow, renewable penetration increases, and extreme weather risks become more frequent, policymakers face a critical challenge: how to maintain resource adequacy and system reliability at reasonable cost while