Bentham Paulos | GreenTech Media
While energy wonks across America start talking about the “disruptive challenge” of new technologies on the grid edge, nowhere is it more real than right now in California.
California has the most of practically everything: solar panels, electric vehicles, smart meters, and microgrids, as well as tech-savvy early adopters. This is backed up by a host of aggressive policies like a 33 percent RPS, the largest efficiency program in the nation, and, of course, carbon cap and trade.
The impact of the American Energiewende will be felt there first. So earlier this month, the state utility and energy commissions convened a joint en banc session to hear from consultants and utility executives about “The Business Model for the Electric Utility of the Future.”
Or as Commissioner Ferron renamed it, “the regulatory model of the utility of the future.”
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