Technical Assistance
Advancing best practices in energy planning and procurement
Technical Assistance
We provide training and technical assistance for state and federal decision-makers and others on energy planning and procurement.
Examples of our training and technical assistance include:
- National organizations. EMP provides grid planning training for state utility consumer advocates, state utility regulators, and state energy officials on topics such as innovations in electricity modeling and accelerating distributed energy resource deployment through grid modernization.
- Michigan Public Service Commission. After the Michigan Legislature passed a law requiring regulated electric utilities to submit integrated resource plans (IRPs) to the Commission for review and approval, the Commission requested a stakeholder training series and technical assistance to Staff.
- South Carolina utility regulators. EMP provided IRP training for Commissioners. We also provided training for Office of Regulatory Staff on IRP components, treatment of distributed energy resources, and uncertainty and risk analysis, and conducted a comparative analysis of integrated planning practices with respect to Duke Energy’s Integrated System and Operations Planning process.
- Maine Public Utilities Commission. Charged with developing rules under a new law requiring utilities to file Integrated Grid Plans, the Commission requested technical assistance, including a presentation for stakeholders on Distribution System Planning: Goals & Objectives.
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. EMP provided technical assistance and a report on the impacts of distributed energy resources adoption as part of the state’s 21st Century Energy Policy Development Task Force.
- Generator interconnection stakeholders. Under the DOE’s interconnection innovation eXchange (i2X) program, EMP provides technical assistance to a range of stakeholders, including FERC, DOE, transmission owner/operators, and project developers in the form of briefings and rapid analysis on bulk power system interconnection.
- Utah Public Service Commission. EMP led a workshop for the Utah Grid Modernization Stakeholder Collaborative on quantifying locational net benefits of distributed energy resources for distribution systems.
- Western Interstate Energy Board. EMP reviewed assumptions for energy efficiency, distributed energy resources, and supply-side resources for regional transmission planning conducted by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council.
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Recent Publications
Sandler, Simon, Bentham Paulos, and Jenna Harmon."Community Solar Consolidated Billing: An Exploration of Implementation and Alternatives."
(2024).
Pastor, Angela Ortega, Ashley Books, Naïm R Darghouth, and Dan Gaspar."COP28 Outcomes Report."
(2023).
Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making."
(2023).
Frick, Natalie Mims, Allison Campbell, Brittany Tarufelli, Elaine Hale, Aven Satre-Meloy, Christine A Holland, and Ashok Sekar."Developing Forecasts: Basics & Best Practices."
(2023).
De Martini, Paul, Alan Cooke, Fredrich Kahrl, Lavelle Freeman, Juan Martinez, Elton Prifti, Kim Cullen, Jody Londo, Tim Woolf, Rebecca O'Neil, Dan Boff, Xiangqi Zhu, Seemita Pal, Ron Melton, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Juliet Homer."New England PUCs training on electricity system planning."
(2022).
Kahrl, Fredrich, Shruti M Deorah, Lakshmi Alagappan, Paul M Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar."Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector."
(2021).
Miller, Cesca, Natalie Mims Frick, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Tom Eckman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Utility-Scale and Distributed Storage in Integrated Resource Plans: A Comparison of Plans for Indiana and Other States."
(2021).
Eckman, Tom, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C Schwartz, Jeremy Twitchell, and Alan Cooke."Integrated Resource Planning Training for the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff."
(2021).
