The last big burst in U.S. smart grid investment was federally funded, via the Obama administration’s stimulus plan. The next big burst may soon be coming. Both the Trump administration and Senate Democrats have proposed competing infrastructure investment plans measuring from $500 billion to $1 trillion, and a leaked list of 50 proposed projects worth $137 billion included a few energy projects in the mix.
America’s Power Plan wants the proper cost and value of distributed energy to be incorporated into whatever billion-dollar grid plans may come of this infrastructure push, and it has a plan to do it.
In a new paper, the nonprofit research group laid out a four-step process for utilities and regulators to choose their goals (clean energy and carbon reduction, fair and low prices for all, and utility-specific grid values) and then compare the cost of making smart grid upgrades versus not making them in order to achieve those goals.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-step-by-step-plan-for-grid-modernization-in-a-distributed-energy-world
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