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,...

Utilities across the world are taking steps to modernize their electric grids. In the most basic sense, this means augmenting the grid with software and communications technologies to help the grid meet the new demands society is placing upon it....

Electricity grids across the nation are undergoing a rapid transition. The principal contributor to this transition is the increased deployment of renewable energy resources by utilities, driven in part by declining costs of these resources relative to conventional, fossil-fired resources....