21 Sep '12, 8pm

Easier Distributed Interconnect Emerges in California

Easier Distributed Interconnect Emerges in California

The unanimously approved revision, say stakeholder participants in the year-long process, establishes several new national best practices, and removes barriers to continued growth of the state's renewable energy market. The new Rule 21 is, in effect, a settlement between California’s three major investor-owned utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Company — and 11 other stakeholders, including the Clean Coalition and Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc. (IREC). “It is, by far and hands down, the best interconnection tariff in the country,” says IREC attorney Sky Stanfield of Keyes, Fox & Wiedman, who helped draft portions of the revised tariff language with her colleague Kevin Fox. “We made it clearer in almost every way, adding timeframes and explanations of what’s happening. We came to fast track screens, made a ...

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