Regulatory Assistance Project

Regulatory Assistance Project

English: Beyond Net Metering: Reforming Compensation for DERs in Brazil (Part 2), 7 May 2026
English: Beyond Net Metering: Reforming Compensation for DERs in Brazil (Part 2), 7 May 2026
Energy policy matters. A prime example is Brazil’s distributed generation framework, which fueled the nation’s ascension to a global leader in distributed solar. As energy resources and grids evol...
Em Português: Reforming Compensation for Distributed Energy Resources in Brazil (parte 2)
Em Português: Reforming Compensation for Distributed Energy Resources in Brazil (parte 2)
Como o Brasil pode avançar além do net metering tradicional e caminhar para abordagens de compensação que reflitam melhor o valor dos recursos energéticos distribuídos? Essa é uma das questões reg...
English: Beyond Net Metering: Reforming Compensation for DERs in Brazil (Part 1)
English: Beyond Net Metering: Reforming Compensation for DERs in Brazil (Part 1)
Energy policy matters. A prime example is Brazil’s distributed generation framework, which fueled the nation’s ascension to a global leader in distributed solar. As energy resources and grids evol...
Em Português: Brazil beyond net metering April30
Em Português: Brazil beyond net metering April30
Como o Brasil pode avançar além do net metering tradicional e caminhar para abordagens de compensação que reflitam melhor o valor dos recursos energéticos distribuídos? Essa é uma das questões reg...
Regulatory Field Trip - Interregional Energy Planning: Learning Across Borders, 5 March 2026
Regulatory Field Trip - Interregional Energy Planning: Learning Across Borders, 5 March 2026
How do energy regulators plan infrastructure and markets that extend beyond their jurisdictional borders? This first Regulatory Field Trip explores how different regions have approached interregion...
Heat pumps in Southern Europe: lessons from Italy and Spain | Electrification Academy
Heat pumps in Southern Europe: lessons from Italy and Spain | Electrification Academy
Heat pumps are a key solution for decarbonising buildings in Europe, but policy debates often overlook Southern Europe. In this Electrification Academy webinar we examined heat pump deployment in I...
Unlocking Cost-Effective Grid Flexibility in Thailand: VPPs and the Role of Regulators​
Unlocking Cost-Effective Grid Flexibility in Thailand: VPPs and the Role of Regulators​
Virtual power plants (VPPs) provide grid services at a lower cost, and can be deployed faster, than conventional generation. Studies have found that VPPs can provide resource adequacy at 40% to 60%...
Electrification Academy 29: How can we reduce electricity prices with tax reform?
Electrification Academy 29: How can we reduce electricity prices with tax reform?
Electrification is highly efficient – a heat pump needs less than one quarter of the energy used in a combustion heating system such as a gas boiler. But the prices we pay for electricity, and how ...
RAP Uplugged: Richard Sedano
RAP Uplugged: Richard Sedano
Richard Sedano, former RAP CEO and current senior advisor, looks back on his career, covering his time at RAP and working in regions around the world. He and also looks toward the future of global ...
Transitioning to Distribution System Operators in Brazil - PORTUGUESE
Transitioning to Distribution System Operators in Brazil - PORTUGUESE
Video in Portuguese As Brazil advances its energy transition, the role of distribution system operators (DSOs) is becoming more critical than ever. DSOs are key to integrating distributed energy r...
Transitioning to Distribution System Operators in Brazil - ENGLISH
Transitioning to Distribution System Operators in Brazil - ENGLISH
As Brazil advances its energy transition, the role of distribution system operators (DSOs) is becoming more critical than ever. DSOs are key to integrating distributed energy resources and enabling...
RAP Unplugged: Sem Oxenaar
RAP Unplugged: Sem Oxenaar
In this episode of RAP Unplugged, we sit down with Sem Oxenaar, associate with RAP’s Europe programme, to explore his work on energy and buildings policy to support heat decarbonisation and energy ...
Electrification Academy 26: How industry can benefit from flexibility revenues
Electrification Academy 26: How industry can benefit from flexibility revenues
Across the world, industry players are looking for ways to reduce their energy costs. How can industry provide flexibility services to electricity grids? What revenues can industry players get from...
Global Perspectives: Energy Justice and the Future of Climate
Global Perspectives: Energy Justice and the Future of Climate
Why do we urgently need to integrate equity and justice into climate and clean energy policies? Last fall, we collaborated with the Crux Alliance and the International Network of Energy Transition ...
Marginal pricing and alternatives explainer
Marginal pricing and alternatives explainer
Bram Claeys offers a quick video explainer of marginal pricing in electricity markets and options to decouple gas and power prices. [No audio.]
How to ease power grid scarcity in Europe
How to ease power grid scarcity in Europe
We have all seen red maps and heard about grid queues. But what can be done? RAP Senior Advisor Zsuzsanna Pató summarises the various regulatory options that can ease the congestion of power grids ...
Federal Dollars, State Policies and Heat Pumps: The Future of Heat in the Mountain West
Federal Dollars, State Policies and Heat Pumps: The Future of Heat in the Mountain West
In the third in a series of webinars examining heat pump adoption initiatives around the United States, RAP and CLASP moderated a roundtable discussion on January 29, 2025, focusing on work in the ...
RAP Unplugged: Louisa Eberle
RAP Unplugged: Louisa Eberle
In this episode of RAP Unplugged, we get to meet Senior Associate Louisa Eberle. Louisa joined RAP in 2024, and discusses her varied background and how she arrived at RAP. She also talks about the ...
RAP Unplugged: Marion Santini
RAP Unplugged: Marion Santini
In this episode of RAP Unplugged, Senior Associate Marion Santini talks about her clean energy work with RAP. Joining us in 2020, Marion has taken the lead on many of our energy efficiency projects...