China's power reform is in its deep-water phase: roughly 15% wind, around 60% coal, and trend changes that increasingly strain both the traditional dispatch-and-balance paradigm and the governance paradigm of big top-down targets. Provincial transparency platforms — Henan's distributed PV hosting-capacity portal, for instance — show what social visibility can do.
The project builds a transparency platform of its own around four indices:
- Draworld-ReGini — security and resilience, computed by province.
- Draworld-MACI — market coupling, from provincial 'should-be' annual average prices produced by the Draworld-P investment and operation optimisation model; the 2023 value was 0.93, reflecting a coal-dominated and highly similar generation mix across provinces.
- Draworld-EMPI — the degree to which the electricity sector prices through markets.
- Draworld-Carbon Index — emission rate of the whole power sector; nationally 500–550 gCO₂/kWh in 2023, with Sichuan and Yunnan low, North, East and Northwest China high, and Beijing an outlier as a pure gas system holding coal only as strategic reserve.
It is designed as a multi-year effort rather than a single report.