Nearly two years ago, GridLab, Advanced Energy United, and RMI launched the CHARGED Initiative, a collaborative effort designed to help prepare the distribution system for electrification so that customers benefit from low costs and high reliability. The CHARGED team marked this anniversary of the growing program by leading a delegation of US state utility commissioners […]
Recently, the CHARGED initiative took a new group of regulators and staffers for a second trip to Great Britain (GB) to learn about their approach to distribution system planning and operations. The approach in GB encompasses tools like performance-based regulation to encourage demand side flexibility, flexible grid interconnection, and innovations in technology, and defer costly […]
London is not just a dynamic and trend setting city, it turns out that Great Britain is doing innovative work on how to unlock the value of grid flexibility. GridLab, Advanced Energy United and RMI took seven US state regulators to London in May to learn about this innovation in practice as part of the […]