Energy & Grid Management
Molly Glick
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Energy & Grid Management
Thu, Apr 23

NEWS: In Q1, most states acted to revamp the grid.

  • Utilities and lawmakers in all but five states went full speed ahead on grid modernization via policy changes and deployment proposals, per recent analysis by the N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center. The top themes? 1) boosting energy storage 2) adjusting interconnection rules 3) reforming utility business models and 4) rolling out smart grid tech. The most active states: VA, MD, CA, MA, and NJ.

  • The big picture: Utilities are increasingly leaning on code over copper, prioritizing ADMS and DERMS deployment to orchestrate load flexibility and corral distributed energy resources into dispatchable grid assets.

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