National Energy Administration: Strengthening the supervision of the electricity market and cracking down on improper local intervention behaviors.

According to the news from the National Energy Administration on October 29th, on October 27th, the National Energy Administration held the third energy regulation work meeting for the year 2025 in Beijing. The meeting emphasized the need to fully promote the construction of a national unified electricity market, improve the rules and regulations system of the electricity market, promote normal transactional activities across power grid operation zones, increase supervision of the electricity market and crackdown on improper local interventions, to ensure the continuous operation of the provincial spot market with basic coverage. It is necessary for each department to fulfill their responsibilities in comprehensive regulation and implementation of annual special supervision tasks in the electricity sector, conduct hierarchical and classified meetings, notifications, and corrective actions, and strengthen the application of regulatory achievements. The original text: National Energy Administration holds the third energy regulation work meeting for 2025 On October 27th, the National Energy Administration held the third energy regulation work meeting for 2025 in Beijing, thoroughly learning and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Party's 20th Central Committee, implementing the deployment of the national energy work conference, regulation work conference, and other tasks, reviewing annual tasks, explaining institutional policies, exchanging experiences, and arranging key work for the next stage. Song Hongkun, member of the Party Group of the National Energy Administration and deputy director, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. The meeting pointed out that since the third quarter, under the strong leadership of the Party group of the National Energy Administration and the joint efforts of various energy regulatory agencies, regulatory work has achieved remarkable results, effectively safeguarding the energy security and stable supply during peak summer demand, promoting the construction of the electricity market and orderly regulation, accelerating the implementation of important energy plans, policies, and projects, effectively ensuring the energy needs of the people, making new breakthroughs in regulatory mechanism innovation, and laying a solid foundation for achieving the annual target tasks of high quality. The meeting emphasized that we are now entering the sprint stage towards the end of the year, and all energy regulatory agencies should have a sense of urgency and determination, making every effort to do well in the next stage of work. Efforts should be made to ensure energy supply during peak winter demand, strengthen supply and demand monitoring and early warning, enhance supervision of key supply guarantees, tap the potential for market supply, and handle various energy demands from the public properly. Efforts should be made to promote the construction of a national unified electricity market, improve the rules and regulations system of the electricity market, promote normalized transactions across power grid operation zones, increase supervision of the electricity market and crackdown on improper local interventions, to ensure the basic coverage of provincial spot markets. Each department should fulfill their responsibilities in comprehensive regulation in the electricity sector and implementation of annual special supervision tasks, conduct hierarchical and classified meetings, notifications, and corrective actions, and strengthen the application of regulatory achievements. Efforts should be continuously made to deepen and improve the level of public electricity services, fully implement the new round of "Access to Electricity" policy, continue to address issues such as frequent power outages and electricity supply in non-grid direct supply areas for residential use, and standardize the handling of responses through the 12398 hotline. Law enforcement should be strictly regulated to be fair, civilized, and efficient, coordinating inclusive and cautious supervision, enhancing supervision of law enforcement work, and providing guidance on cases. Efforts should be made to strengthen the party building of outbound agencies, comprehensively learn, propagate, and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Party's 20th Central Committee, tighten the implementation of political responsibility for governing the party and consolidate and expand the results of learning and education on integrating and promoting party building and regulatory business to enhance quality and efficiency. At the meeting, the Department of Institutional Reform and Price of the National Development and Reform Commission explained relevant policy documents, the Market Supervision Department, the Internal Discipline Inspection Commission, and the Qualification Center of the National Energy Administration reported on relevant situations, and the North China Regulatory Bureau, Northeast Regulatory Bureau, and Jiangsu Regulatory Office made exchanges and statements. The meeting was held in video format, with Huang Xuenong, the General Director of Regulation of the National Energy Administration, relevant departments, and some officials from units directly under the jurisdiction in Beijing attending the main venue, while responsible officials from outbound agencies and relevant personnel attended the sub-venue. This article was excerpted from the official WeChat account of the National Energy Administration. Editor: Chen Wenfang.