Require greater transparency from utilities on outages, costs, and responses
Challenge/Local/State
Priority Area: Clean Energy and Building Decarbonization
Description
State Solution
(Type of Activity: Policy/Regulation )
Existing Examples of Progress: The US DOE's Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange partners with national labs, utilities, grid operators, state and local governments and others to share data, develop roadmaps, and facilitate new solutions to improve interconnection procedures. The DOE’s Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Roadmap also compiles goals and solutions to increase data access, transparency, and security for interconnection, among other process improvements.
Further Progress Pathways: CPUC proceeding R.25-08-004 (opened August 2025), a new rulemaking to modernize Rule 21 interconnection procedures for distributed energy resources (DERs)., including a focus on improving IOU timeline compliance, refining dispute resolution (including the suspended Expedited Interconnection Dispute Resolution process), and ensuring proper use of Integration Capacity Analysis tools
Region: Statewide
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