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California Public Utility Commission Order – Demand Flexibility Through Electric Rates
California Public Utility Commission recently initiated an Order Instituting Rulemaking to advance Demand Flexibility Through Electric Rates (OIR 22-07-005.) The first round of comments included general support for the CalFUSE think piece offered by Energy Division...
White Paper by CPUC Staff
California’s electricity system is undergoing rapid transformation on the pathway to 100% renewable power, with the expected high penetration of renewables, electrification of buildings and transportation, and deployment of behind-the-meter (BTM) distributed energy...
Real-time pricing, new rates and enabling technologies target demand flexibility to ease California outages
Growing California power system reliability threats made vivid by early September Flex Alerts called by the state’s system operator could be relieved by a price signal based on real-time pricing, or RTP, linked to smart customer-owned resources through new enabling...