Reform CPUC Planning, Tariffs, and Cost-Effectiveness Frameworks to Reflect Local DER Value. The state should reform CPUC policies, tariffs, and planning assumptions to ensure that distributed energy resources, community solar, microgrids, and multi-site DER projects are accurately reflected in system planning and price signals. Cost-effectiveness and procurement decisions should explicitly value resilience, avoided transmission and distribution upgrades, local reliability, and customer-level impacts, avoiding “wrong signal at the wrong time” outcomes that discourage local and community-scale investments.