Transition of China Power Industry: Market and Reliability Issues

With the deregulation of power industry, power system reliability becomes a critical problem. The impact of deregulation on system reliability is one of the concerns after the unbundling of the traditional integrated power companies. In this paper, the reliability situations in restructuring China power industry are introduced. Some reliability data is provided. The data shows that the reliability level has increased significantly in the past two decades. More and more measures are applied to guarantee the reliability operation in the restructured power systems. In the end, the reliability issues and challenges in Chinese power industry are discussed.