Chapter 21

Distributed Utility: Conflicts and Opportunities Between Incumbent Utilities, Suppliers, and Emerging New Entrants

Kevin B. Jones
Taylor L. Curtis
Marc de Konkoly Thege
Daniel Sauer
Matthew Roche    Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT, United States of America

Abstract

This chapter explores the ongoing distributed utility regulatory reform in New York State known as Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), and compares it to the reform processes in California, Massachusetts, and Hawaii. Key policy issues, such as the distributed utility platform and ownership structure of distributed energy resources are discussed from the perspective of the incumbent utilities, existing power suppliers, and the ...

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