一、题目：

中国能源低碳转型的思考：国家VS市场

State versus Market in China's Low-Carbon Energy Transition

二、主讲人：Dr Philip Andrews-Speed

China's efforts to constrain the carbon emissions from its energy sector to date have relied largely on transitional administrative measures backed by generous financial support. However, this approach is encountering ever-diminishing returns. In response, the government has been introducing a series of market reforms to improve economic efficiency and constrain carbon emissions. These include competitive tenders for shale gas acreage, emissions trading pilot markets, competition in electricity markets, third party access to pipelines, renewable energy reverse auctions and green certificate trading. However, the energy sector remains dominated by state through central and local government agencies and state-owned enterprises whose priorities and behaviours are changing only slowly. The lecture applies neo-institutionalist concepts to examine the challenge of introducing market mechanisms into China's energy sector. It draws on evidence of actor behaviours during current and past efforts to introduce market forces into the state-dominated energy sector. In institutional terms, the result has been incompatibility between, on the one hand, the formal rules that govern market transactions and, on the other hand, the wider institutional environment and the informal rules that govern behaviours. State actors of different types and those with connections with the state are able to take advantage of their status to gain economic benefit and undermine the operation of the market mechanisms. Consequently, progress in implementing these market reforms will be slow and the outcomes uncertain.

六、主讲人简介：

Dr Philip Andrews-Speed is a Senior Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. He has nearly 40 years in the field of energy and resources, starting his career as a mineral and oil exploration geologist before moving into the field of energy and resource governance. Until 2010, he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. His main research interest has been the political economy of the low-carbon energy transition. China has been a particular focus for his research, but in recent years he has been more deeply engaged with energy challenges in Southeast Asia. His latest book (co-authored with Professor Zhang Sufang) China as a Global Clean Energy Champion: Lifting the Veil appeared early in 2019.

华北电力大学经管学院

北京能源发展研究基地

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