In a massive coming of age for the plurality of the world’s renewable energy, China is shifting green energy generation over from state-controlled pricing onto the market – a natural sequel to reforms which have included ever-steeper time of day pricing, mandatory battery co-location, and the addition since last year of a capacity market. On February 9th, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and National Energy Administration (NEA), jointly issued the ‘Notice on Deepening the Market-oriented Reform of New Energy On-Grid Electricity Prices to Promote the High-quality Development of New Energy’. The Notice declared that wind, solar and other green energy sources would have their electricity prices fully determined by the electricity market, replacing previously government-set rates which had…