Customer Engagement & Experience
Sun, Aug 30
Molly Glick
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Customer Engagement & Experience

NEWS: California officials passed a bill that would enable customer-owned DERs to bolster the grid.

  • The details: The bill directs the state’s IOUs to incorporate DERs into peak demand capacity planning (including home batteries, solar + storage, and bidirectional EV chargers).

  • The savings: This would curb the need for new transmission and peaker plants, bill supporters said.

  • A caveat: It’s not clear whether Gov. Newsom will sign the bill; last year, he vetoed a slate of bills to expand VPPs.

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