The Regulatory Assistance Project
For General Operating Support
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Amount$3,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/15/2017
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
The Regulatory Assistance Project provides technical assistance to utility and environmental regulators to facilitate the adoption of clean-energy policies. It is composed of former regulators, who leverage their expertise with advocates to promote sustainable low-carbon power sector development in the U.S., China, India, Europe, and Latin America. In Europe, its focus is developing power markets that reward emission-free generation. In China, it advises grantees and the government on reforming how clean power is brought onto the grid and reform of wholesale markets; and in India, they are working with regulators and grantees to strengthen the Indian energy boards and provide technical assistance on renewable energy integration.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.raponline.org
Address
50 State Street, Suite 3, Montpelier, VT, 05602, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) focuses on key policy areas to drive a more efficient and equitable decarbonized energy future and to ensure a sustainable and just transition. RAP develops solutions to the questions that regulators and other public, private, and non-government organization decision makers are asking (or should be asking), working to change the narrative and leverage partnerships to accelerate change. RAP’s four policy areas are (a) faster electrification of buildings and transportation, (b) faster phaseouts of gas infrastructure, (c) removing barriers to distributed energy, and (d) decarbonizing the electric grid. Across these four areas, RAP provides decision makers in the power sector with global best practices — and the expertise to implement them. (Substrategy: Electrification)
for general operating support
This one-time grant is to support collaborative work underway by the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) between the United State's Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) and China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on issues related to integrating renewable energy resources into the electric power grid, environmental and economic dispatch of electric generation and energy price setting, energy markets and reliability matters.
