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Want a more distributed and lower cost power system? Try this new planning tool

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While the costs of distributed energy resources (DER) continue their remarkable decline, potentially more important new data reveals their growing value to both customers and the bulk power system, experts say.
Planning by utilities and system operators has traditionally been based on complex forecasts about bulk system factors like resource cost and customer demand to balance supply and load. Local resources have been an afterthought. A new modeling tool claiming unprecedented processing power and detail offers the potential for a new level of joint transmission-distribution planning strategy not undertaken before.
I don t know how this modeling tool fits into regulatory proceedings, but it s unreasonable for regulators whose duty is to protect customer interests to not investigate it, said former Maryland utility commissioner and Sunrun Chief Policy Officer Anne Hoskins. If I were still a regulator, I would ask our energy staff to determine whether the c ....

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