Energy Revolution and the Energy Demand Side Management in China

Abstract

China's energy revolution has put forward new requirements for energy demand side management. For a long time, China's energy demand side management lacks legalized and institutionalized policy and legal guarantee, which inhibits the role of energy demand side management in promoting sustainable economic and social development and energy structure transformation and upgrading. Based on the analysis of the status of China's energy demand side management policies and laws and the existing problems such as low level of legislation, poor operability and focusing on power demand side management, suggestions on the legislation of China's energy demand side management are put forward.