State Interconnection Rules Impact Solar & EVs

The State: California

What’s the impact of the rule changes?

allow distributed energy resources to play a more active role
battery-backed solar systems can incorporate flexibility into the grid
- without being aggregated as a virtual power plant
- not as a non-wires alternative to grid upgrades, but as a precondition of their interconnection
orders investor owned utilities to “develop processes to allow fast-track interconnection of DER projects that use “limited generation profiles”
standardizes solar-plus-storage and vehicle-to-grid charging
- recognizes “limited export”
- sets rules for utilities to verify that projects are sticking to those limits

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