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Republican FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said Thursday he will leave in mid-August, giving more weight to the two Democratic members' opposition of natural gas pipeline certifications.
Regulators will soon decide between two paths regarding SCE's proposed pilot — one where DER remains secondary to natural gas and another where they move to transform the distribution system.
Kennedy was a key vote in a number of environmental cases, including a 2007 ruling allowing EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, and advocates say his departure has set up "the fight of our lives."
The divestitures mark the start of a three-phase effort to "optimize" the company's business portfolio and come amid increasing pressure from activist investors.
The utility will need to obtain separate regulatory approval and interconnect agreements for any owned or procured renewable energy sources supporting the program.
The program will consider grid edge resources like energy storage, microgrids and AMI. But the bulk of the plan is not so sexy — 80% of the company's outages are caused by trees.
Cities with energy production and manufacturing had higher carbon dioxide outputs than service-based or tech-focused cities, research from the University of East Anglia says.
The legislation aims to remove several obstacles to microgrid development, including interconnection barriers and a lack of standard terms regarding the value of services exchanged between the microgrid operator and the utility.
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