Conditions not ripe for China to raise standards
The source added that it is for the time being not feasible for the country to generally raise the design standards for grid equipment as this may triple related investment and greatly raise the electricity supply cost.
It is learned that after the snow havoc the State Grid Corporation has sent technicians to do on-site investigations into the necessity to raise the design standards for power equipment.
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WASHINGTON - The Monday letter from Congressional Democrats illustrates growing frustration in Washington over the lack of FERC action on multiple power sector issues.
Last May, after the FERC technical conference, 16 Democratic Senators wrote to then-Chairman Kevin McIntyre urging him to develop guidance for grid operators on aggregated DERs.
In July, McIntyre responded, saying that FERC was "diligently reviewing the record," but the commission has taken no action since.
Since then, "DER adoption and renewable energy aggregation have continued to grow," House and Senate lawmakers wrote in their identical Monday letters, "driven not only by state and federal policies, but consumer interest…
