Policy Breakout Kevin, David, Chris, and Jay

What are the required policy shifts for more load shifting, renewables integration, and other LoCal goals?

Beyond Green Button Use “green button” power data to build a tool that provides consumers: Tariff options (real-time, time-of-use, direct access, CPP, self-designed, etc.) Supply choices (PV, ST water heater, etc.) Demand choices (EV, deferrable loads, smart appliances, etc.) Allows for exploration of pricing strategies by consumers, and will ideally put pressure on policymakers to expand pricing options to consumers to seed innovation

More about direct access Due to SB 695 in 2009, the three CA utilities have 25,000,000 MWh (~3 GW all year) of capacity Non-residential customers can enroll to purchase electricity from Electric Service Providers (like TX) Simulating direct access pricing for loads could enable more choice and innovation on the electricity network (R and C).

Prices to Devices Demo Experimental study with CPUC and CAISO to provide dynamic pricing to customers (two meters?) Dynamic price is a reflection of wholesale price plus defensible markup Easier to monitor and hypothesize consumption and changes than actually implement (actuation is expensive and may damage appliances)

Miscellany Need to expose price volatility to the consumer to encourage storage and SFLs DR hurts energy efficiency by encouraging focus on critical peak shaving (rather than at all times) Real-time power factor correction – allows for decoupling