Pathway 5.

Electricity Decarbonization → Distributed Renewable Energy

5.2.12 Incentivizing Utilities to Embrace DER

LPDD Recommendation: “State PUCs should encourage utilities to begin using grid-connected PV along with distributed batter storage to provide the valuable benefits of resilience and emergency backup for their services. Consequently, PUCs should discourage, and perhaps penalize, utilities for delaying approval for DG-plus-storage systems.”

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Mississippi IRP Process

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions

Requires utilities to consider distributed energy resources and demand-side management in addition to traditional supply-side resources.

Tucson Electric Power’s DER investments

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities

Building a 100 MW solar array and a 30 MWh battery system, expected to provide solar power at less than $0.03/kWh.

Kauai Island Utility Cooperative investments in DER

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities

Signed contracts for 13 MW of solar and a 52 MWh battery in 2015. In 2017, announced purchase of additional 28 MW solar array and a 100 MWh battery.