Q rooftop solar here, one of the takeaways of your story was we just need better forecasting for distributed generation that often sits behind the meter, on the customer side of the meter, and that's a theme that's consistent across the U.S. So as you talk to experts for this story, what are they telling you about the value of distributed resources and the insufficient ways that we calculate that value?
A I think one of the most interesting things was, I spoke to utility commissioners from Maine and Connecticut for the story, and what they both said is, this is gonna, this study makes it so much, like, we're trying to figure out how to value all these different resources, um, both to solve our reliability challenges and to solve our climate challenges. And this study really helps us place a value on that, um, in a way that maybe we wouldn't have been able to do before. It, it was a reminder to me that we really need to dig in to, to the data and to the facts about how this transition is unfolding, because summer, solar summer reliability, that makes sense. You know, I don't think you have to explain that too, too much in depth. Solar winter reliability? I think that's a little counterintuitive for a lot of people, so, um, I thought that was what was sort of an interesting data point in this wider national conversation that we're having about reliability during the energy transition.
AI assessment note: “we're trying to figure out how to value all these different resources”