Incentive regulation for electric distribution platform operations

One emerging expectation about distributed energy resource (DER) penetration is that it will lead to a new kind of “platform-based” operations on the distribution system, involving customer and commercial aggregator transactions for power supply, energy management, information services, and possibly new uses of the grid. Brattle evaluated alternative cost recovery and incentive mechanisms for a large urban utility seeking to make long-term commitments to accomplish these changes in its system.