From coast to coast, utilities are investing in distribution in the emerging age of DERs. For more than a century, electric utilities have enjoyed regulated monopoly status. Disrupting this well-established business environment now are renewable energy technologies, digital intelligence and sensors, third-party market competition, environmental concerns and related government regulations. With state regulators launching distributed energy resource (DER) mandates and market-restructuring initiatives from coast to coast, how are electric utilities responding to the challenge, and what factors are driving current and future distribution grid investment and development strategies?
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