ESIG Report: The Transition to a High-DER Electricity System: Creating a National Initiative on DER Integration for the United States

Summary:

Prepared by Strategen, this report by the Energy Systems Integration Group’s (ESIG) Distributed Energy Resources Task Force is the third in a series of three reports on DER integration.

Distributed energy resources (DERs) have the potential to provide significant benefits to the U.S. electricity system and its customers, including demand flexibility, lower emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants, consumer choice, competition, rapid innovation, cybersecurity, and enhanced reliability and resilience. Important efforts to further DER integration are underway, highlighting key challenges that must be solved to facilitate Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 2222 in the short term (enabling DERs to participate on a level playing field with other resources through DER aggregations) and to expand opportunities for integrating DERs into power systems over the longer term. All current efforts call for broader venues that facilitate knowledge sharing across states and other jurisdictions. A comprehensive, national initiative is needed to develop greater consistency and consensus around DER integration in the United States.

ESIG’s report, The Transition to a High-DER Electricity System: Creating a National Initiative on DER Integration for the United States, proposes a U.S. national initiative around DER integration that would create common concepts and vocabulary, more standardized solutions to nearer-term DER integration challenges, and more alignment across the industry on how to resolve longer-term challenges.

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