A comprehensive effort to change how utilities perform system planning, what financial incentives they face, how they make use of distributed resources, including energy efficiency investments.
Highlighting financial rewards or earnings opportunities to program administrators, utilities, and shareholders in return for the expansion of energy efficiency programs in the utility sector.
NRDC has published a fact sheet on electric utility revenue decoupling and the potential value it provides to prioritizing energy efficiency investments.
The Dept. of Public Utilities issued a 2018 Order authorizing utilities to make $220 million in investments in grid modernization technologies over three years to upgrade their distribution systems to improve efficiency and reliability.
The California PUC finalized quality standard for biogas, including acceptable concentration levels for 17 constituents of concern in biogas.
California established a $40 million monetary incentive program under which certain renewable gas producers can recover a portion of their interconnection costs from gas utilities.
New York utilities must develop methodologies for assessing distribution system needs and the potential value of DER solutions.
Investor-owned utilities work with DER providers to develop a methodology to identify where DERs can connect to the distribution system, and how much each feeder can handle.
CCA in New York was authorized through the Public Service Commission in 2016.