Videos & Highlights: California’s Distributed Energy Future 2016

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The Greentech Media California's Distributed Energy Future Conference provided the audience with great insight into the current direction of distributed energy.

Below you'll find two videos featuring:

1. Keynote Panel: Distributed Energy Resources as Grid Assets

2. Fireside Chat: Michael Picker, President, California Public Utilities Commission

3. Audience Vote Feedback on Various topics.

1. Keynote Panel: Distributed Energy Resources as Grid Assets

California is at the forefront of the push to consider distributed energy resources as assets to the grid. On this panel, leading experts discuss the benefits and challenges of shifting the lens through which distributed energy is viewed, and how markets must adjust to enable this transformation.

Caroline Choi, Vice President, Energy & Environmental Policy, Southern California Edison
Mark Ferron, Member, Board of Governors, CAISO, Former Commissioner, CPUC
David L. Geier, Vice President, Electric Transmission & System Engineering, San Diego Gas & Electric

Moderator: Rick Thompson, President & Co-Founder, Greentech Media

2. Fireside Chat: Michael Picker, President, California Public Utilities Commission

  

3. Audience Questions and Answers

1. What will be the primary benefit of the shift toward distributed energy in California?

B) Decreased greenhouse gas emissions (38.7%)
A) Increased customer choice (27.1%)

  

2. What will be the primary negative consequence of the shift toward distributed energy in California?

B) Increasing integration costs of intermittent generation. (28.9%)
C) Growing wealth divide (26.9%)

3. What remains the greatest challenge for California's distributed energy future? 

D) Regulatory - distribution planning, rate reform (40.6%)
C) Structural - utility business model evolution (34.7%)

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4. What technology will have the greatest impact on the growth of DER in California?

B) Energy Storage (45.1%)

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5. What will be the primary solution to the so-called "duck curve" phenomenon?

B) Energy Storage (59.6%)