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5 new strategies to design more effective utility DER pilots

July 20, 2017

The journey through the energy transition just got a new roadmap.

Regulatory disputes across the country continue to stifle innovation and impede the emergence of new utility business models. But a new paper offers best practices from a variety of utility pilot projects to help regulators and stakeholders sort through the noise and make evidence-based decisions.

“Utility innovation to the changing system has generally been slow and many utility pilots and demonstrations have not produced significant results at scale or in a timely fashion,” Mike Henchen, electricity policy manager at the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), said.

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