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Discover how proactive distribution planning helps utilities build capacity ahead of demand, which reduces delays, manages costs, and supports clean energy goals. Proactive distribution planning ...

On August 14, 2014, the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) issued an Order Instituting Rulemaking (“Order”) to establish policies, procedures, and rules to guide California investor-owned ...

Meant to enable ever-increasing amounts of distributed energy resources (DERs) and serve as a roadmap for grid modernization, the DRPs were in response to a CPUC rulemaking initiative that stated, ...