“电荒”本质是供求关系失衡。电力短缺可以通过数量机制和价格机制进行调整。然而,在由于复杂原因导致短期供给约束条件下,数量机制不能发挥作用时,本可调节供求关系的价格机制,却也因长期扭曲而失灵。这使得“电荒”的出现和持续成为必然。因此,改革现有电价体系就成为一项紧迫的任务。从长远来看,形成科学、合理的电力定价机制具有重要战略意义。 “Power shortage” is the nature of the imbalance between supply and demand. Electricity shortages can be adjusted through quantitative mechanisms and price mechanisms. However, when the quantitative mechanism can not work under the constraint of short-term supply due to complicated reasons, the price mechanism that could adjust the supply-demand relationship may also fail due to long-term distortion. This makes the emergence and persistence of “power shortage” inevitable. Therefore, the reform of the existing electricity price system has become an urgent task. In the long run, it is of strategic importance to form a scientific and rational electricity pricing mechanism.