California needs new low-cost generation capacity. Virtual power plants can help. A GROWING PROBLEM California has narrowly avoided significant blackouts due to shortages in power supply on multiple occasions over the past few years. Factors contributing to this challenge include...

Charting a Path for Greater Electrification on the Distribution System The CHARGED initiative was formed to support states as they electrify their transportation and building sectors, ensuring that the electricity distribution system is ready for this new era.Amidst a period...

There is broad consensus that successfully addressing the climate crisis will require electrification of the transportation and building sectors. Recognizing this need, some cities and states have begun to adopt electrification policies. Ensuring that the electric distribution system is ready...

This study assessed the statewide market potential for virtual power plants (VPPs) in California in 2035. We describe the findings of the study in our Volume I summary report. This Volume II report details the modeling approach and assumptions underlying

Implementation of FERC’s Order 2222 requires transmission and distribution system coordination, which will require active engagement from state utility regulators. With that in mind, Advanced Energy Economy and GridLab convened distribution utilities and AEE members for eight months in 2021...

Over the equivalent of two and a half days in the summer of 2020, a team of ten experts with backgrounds working at ISOs/RTOs, technology companies, policy organizations, federal and state regulatory agencies, and independent consultancies met virtually at e-Lab...

Over 150 states, local governments and prominent businesses have adopted ambitious renewable and clean energy goals to rapidly reduce carbon emissions in an effort to address climate change and improve the resilience of the electric grid. Concurrently, states and utilities...

Customers are increasingly choosing to deploy distributed energy resources (DER) to better serve their energy needs. This deployment of DER is part of a broader energy transition where the centralized paradigm of energy delivery is evolving to a more distributed...

The Tennessee Valley Authority lags behind its peers on clean energy development and has the second-highest planned gas buildout of all major utilities in the United States.1 Its 20-year energy-planning outlook projects the agency will generate 34 million tons of...

Electric distribution utilities have successfully designed and operated safe and reliable distribution systems for over 100 years using proven, but not publicly understood, distribution planning practices. As customers increasingly adopt distributed energy resources (DER) such as energy efficiency, demand response,...