Pathway 5.

Electricity Decarbonization → Distributed Renewable Energy

5.2.9 Rate Restructuring, Grid Modernization, and Utility Reform

LPDD Recommendation: “State PUCs should restructure rates away from the traditional cost-of-service model.”

LPDD Recommendation: “State PUCs should participate in negotiations concerning the restructuring of utilities away from vertically integrated, investor-owned monopolies focused on selling more kWh to alternative models such as community-owned energy systems or energy service companies decoupling generation from distribution and creating new mandates for working with independent generators.”

See also: community solar and virtual net metering examples, listed under “Ownership Models."

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MIT Report, The Future of the Electric Grid

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions, States and State Governments, Public Utilities

A comprehensive, objective portrait of the U.S. electric grid and the challenges and opportunities it is likely to face over the next two decades.

Connecticut’s Framework for an Equitable Modern Grid

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions

PURA framework for a plan to modernize the electric grid.

Virginia’s Grid Transformation and Security Act (2018)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Increases utility investment in renewable energy, grid modernization, undergrounding power lines, energy efficiency and demand response.

Nevada’s SB 300 (2019)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Directs state regulators to explore an alternative ratemaking process - including performance incentives, decoupling mechanisms, and earnings-sharing mechanisms - that aligns utility business models with meeting the state's 100% clean energy statute.

Hawaii Proceeding To Investigate Distributed Energy Resource Policies

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions

Investigating technical, economic, and policy issues associated with DER.

Colorado’s Investigation of Performance-Based Ratemaking Proceeding

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, State Public Utility Commissions

Seeks to identify Performance-Based Ratemaking options for aligning utility investments with public benefit goals, including safety, reliability, cost-efficiency, emissions reductions, and the expansion of distributed energy resources.

MI Power Grid Proceeding

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions

Multi-year stakeholder initiative at the Michigan PUC aiming to maximize the benefits of the shift to clean and distributed energy resources.

RAP report, Electric Cost Allocation for a New Era

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions, Public Utilities

Focuses on cost allocation practices for electric utilities and their implications, acknowledging that charting a new path on cost allocation is an important part of creating the fair, efficient and clean electric system of the future.

New Mexico’s Energy Grid Modernization Roadmap (HB 233)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Directs agencies to develop a strategic plan for energy grid modernization and to establish a competitive grant program to support implementation of eligible grid modernization projects.

DC’s MEDSIS proceeding

Jurisdiction: State Public Utility Commissions, Local Governments

Considering separate tracks related to data and information access and alignment, non-wires alternatives to grid investments, future rate design, customer impacts, microgrids, and potential Pilot Projects.