California’s utilities are at the frontline of meeting renewable energy goals, but often they are not the ones leading the charge.
“We are not the driver; that is the challenge for us,” Mark Irwin, director of contract origination at Southern California Edison, told Utility Dive.
The challenge for SCE is not adding renewables to its grid — as Irwin noted, the utility is “well on its way” to meeting California’s 50% by 2030 RPS target — the challenge is adapting to the rising level of distributed resources on the grid.
