Bobby Magill reports at Cleantechnica on this new development. “Clean Dispatch” means using low carbon sources of electricity with priority. From the Cleantechnica article: “China’s ‘green dispatch’ system will prioritize power generation from renewable resources, and establish guidelines to accept electricity first from the most efficient and lowest-polluting fossil fuel generators,” the presidents’ joint statement says. This is similar to the German policy in Article 11 of the Law on Renewable Energy, which requires to use renewable energy with priority. There is a similar priority under Article 16 of the Renewable Energy Directive, which reads (in Paragraph 2 b)): Member States shall also provide for either priority access or guaranteed access to the grid-system of electricity produced from renewable energy sources; The Chinese “green dispatch” system seems to go even farther. I don’t know the details of this…
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