Resolving the conflict between new and old: A comparison of New York, California and other state DER proceedings

Distributed energy resources present opportunities to serve grid and customer need through two-way power flow. New values, methods, and planning are required to efficiently interconnect and utilize DERs. This paper analyzes New York's and California's DER proceedings to provide a comparison of the similarities and differences between these and other states that will result in different levels of deployments and valuations of DERs.