Bombay: Utility and regulator trust is the biggest roadblock for DER proliferation
Jay Bombay · AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants · Nov 16, 2023 · at 47:00
Jay Bombay discusses the challenges of integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) into power markets at Leap.
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“It's probably one of the biggest challenges to the DER industry, which is trust from the utility and regulator side on embracing DERs and really accepting them as a reliable resource, whether it's for capacity or for localized capacity I think getting, establishing that trust is, like, one of the biggest roadblocks to DER, like, just proliferation into grid integration”
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