The operating rules of the Sichuan Provincial Power Market Management Committee have been further strengthened. The committee’s supervisory body, the Sichuan Energy Regulatory Office, has driven improvements to the procedural rules governing the entire process of agenda initiation, deliberation, and execution.
For agenda initiation, the rules now explicitly require the proposer to communicate in advance with relevant member units and report to the regulatory office and relevant government departments. Written correspondence must bear an official seal or representative’s signature. In addition, a new voting procedure has been introduced: the secretariat organizes all members to vote on whether a proposal should be listed as an official agenda item, with voting notices concurrently copied to relevant departments.
The secretariat is responsible for organizing deliberation meetings. It is stipulated that formal agenda notices must be simultaneously copied to relevant departments, thereby ensuring these bodies’ right to be informed and to provide guidance, and making the deliberation process more open and transparent.
On the execution side, new submission rules have been established. Trading rules, detailed rules, or plans approved through deliberation are, in principle, to be submitted by the original proposer to the relevant departments for final approval. The submitted content must not omit information, exceed the approved scope, or arbitrarily change key parameter values. When submitting the approval report, meeting minutes must be attached and copied to the committee, with the secretariat responsible for verification and oversight.
The Sichuan Energy Regulatory Office stated that it will urge the committee to strictly implement the rules, continuously improve its governance system, and better serve the standardized and healthy development of Sichuan’s power market. These adjustments are made in accordance with the requirements of the Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Improving the National Unified Power Market System (Guobanfa [2026] No. 4).