Optimizing the price mechanism to increase the proportion of natural w88 casino (Natural w88 casino Series Commentary (Part 2))
Lin Zhiqin Jiang Yuchen
(Source: People's Daily Online, China Energy News2013Year10month7Day4version)
China’s energy consumption structure, in which coal dominates, has changed little so far. In the past31The share of coal consumption in annual primary energy consumption has only declined2.2percentage points, still high72.0%;Clean energy only accounts for13.0%. Natural w88 casino as a transitional clean energy has only improved2percentage points, reached5.2%. Promoting a reasonable increase in the proportion of natural w88 casino in primary energy consumption is an important consideration for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, realizing green and clean cities, and getting rid of smog. This article puts forward three suggestions starting from the price mechanism.
First, open the upstream market and regulate the midstream market. At present, my country's natural w88 casino market has been opened to the outside world. The three major companies, PetroChina, Sinopec, and CNOOC, supervise the upstream natural w88 casino market and actively attract foreign-invested enterprises to participate in the upstream market in the form of shares. However, there are fewer companies independently participating in the upstream market and the competition is low. The above-mentioned three major oil companies are in a tripartite position in my country's midstream market. They adopt a business model of "each laying pipelines and each delivering w88 casino to make profits" for its w88 casino fields. With the current natural w88 casino pricing, laying new pipelines to increase the supply of natural w88 casino will require large investments in fixed assets and a long payback period. Without profit as a driving force, exploring w88 casino reservoirs and laying new pipelines will be put on hold. After opening up the upstream market and making companies more profitable, the midstream market can continue to use the government's unified supervision model to ensure a unified pipeline model, which is conducive to the construction of networked w88 casino supply pipelines that interconnect multiple w88 casino sources, and abandons the current "one line, one price" independent pipelines. The separate pricing of each pipeline will result in different natural w88 casino prices for users in new and old regions. Low prices in some areas lead to low energy-efficiency production. High prices in some areas cause public dissatisfaction but cannot lower the price. In particular, the price of imported w88 casino is nearly twice as high as that of domestically produced w88 casino. "One line, one price" will intensify the price difference contradiction.
Secondly, realize dynamic management of downstream markets. At present, the price of natural w88 casino in the downstream market is mainly controlled by each province based on its own characteristics through gate station price regulation of "one price per province" or "stepped w88 casino prices", ultimately realizing a dynamic mechanism. Henan, Hebei, Hunan and other places have successively started trial operation of tiered w88 casino prices. View2012Natural w88 casino import data in Hebei, the difference between the peak value in January and the trough value in August136.6(t). Since the downstream demand for natural w88 casino determines the lag of upstream supply, unstable downstream demand will affect the accuracy and timeliness of upstream w88 casino supply. Peak w88 casino consumption periods in winter will cause "w88 casino shortages" and will increase the gap between supply and sales, causing unnecessary energy and economic waste. Therefore, new pricing standards still need to be adjusted. In the long run, "ladder w88 casino prices" can gradually establish a flexible natural w88 casino price mechanism, adjust fluctuations based on user w88 casino consumption data, and use tiered prices to limit the fluctuation range of users' w88 casino consumption. On the other hand, we will implement the reform of the natural w88 casino system with the marketization of natural w88 casino prices as the core and increase the proportion of natural w88 casino in energy consumption.
Third, explore strategic reserves of natural w88 casino to stabilize w88 casino prices. In addition to the domestic mining market, expansionLNGImport is one of the effective ways to make up for the natural w88 casino gap.201212532_1254830%, Compared with oil imports, natural w88 casino source countries are geographically dispersed, the proportion of a single importing country is low, pipeline transportation reduces shipping risks and other factors ensure the security of natural w88 casino import supply. Imported natural w88 casino can be sold directly into the downstream market, but my country's natural w88 casino pricing is completely out of touch with foreign import prices. In some areas, the door-to-door sales price is even lower than the CIF duty-paid price1.5yuan/The price of cubic meters is inverted. On the one hand, the market is rigid and prices are locked due to the lack of open market management in my country; on the other hand, natural w88 casino reserves are too small to stabilize prices. At present, my country's natural w88 casino reserves are only used to adjust peak consumption and have not formally established strategic reserves, so the reserve volume and reserve model are not mandatory. Then, in the process of adjusting the natural w88 casino price mechanism, exploring the strategic natural w88 casino reserve model is also a new opportunity for my country to explore strategic energy reserves. With reference to the U.S. reserve experience, our country should establish at least60days of reserves, abandoning the national reserve model that lacks market linkage; absorbing the experience of "democratic government assistance" in Japan's energy strategic reserves, planning on the basis of peak reserves, lowering the threshold for private enterprises to participate in w88 casino storage construction, encouraging social capital to participate in w88 casino storage construction, and formulating China's characteristic strategic reserve model and laws through "government-citizen interaction".
(The first author is the director of China Energy and Environment Research Center, secretary-general of China Energy and Environment Summit Forum, and professor of w88 casino)
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