California Looks at Tariffs, Not Contracts, to Put Distributed Energy to Use as Grid Resources

GreenTech Media:  Can tariffs, instead of utility contracts, bring out enough distributed energy resources to defer grid investment needs? California is now looking over a host of proposed experiments aimed at answering that question.

Over the past six years, California has been on a slow march toward integrating distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, or grid-responsive loads into its utility power grids.

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