China's top economic regulator says the country is going to expand its pilot power transmission and distribution pricing reform to 12 more provincial power grids and one regional network.
Power grids in regions such as Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing and Guangdong will be included in the pilot program.
The reform was first rolled out in Shenzhen in 2014.
It is mainly aimed at separating the power transmission and distribution price from the sales price, allowing room for the market to have a bigger say in deciding the final price.
Under the reform, power grid companies will no longer profit from the difference between its costs and its sales prices.
Instead, they will charge a government-verified service fee based on the cost of transmitting and distributing power.