Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs

Distributed battery deployment is increasing with advanced metering, control, and communication technologies, leaving electric utilities with an under-utilized, flexible grid resource in aggregate. In this webinar, we provide a high-level assessment on how electric utilities can best align their retail rates and incentive-based programs with electricity system needs in order to encourage beneficial adoption and dispatch of distributed batteries. In addition, this webinar identifies a number of considerations and different implementation challenges associated with increasing this alignment and more comprehensively utilizing distributed battery resources for grid services. The full report can be downloaded here.