1. Re-envisioning Consumer Choice
California’s Distributed Energy Future 2016 Conference
March 17, 2016
Stephanie Wang, Senior Policy Attorney

3. Choose solar, electric vehicles
“Choice” has baggage
Examples:
Choose solar, electric vehicles
Let people plug in DERs anywhere on the grid

4. Choice is about technologies?
New vision:
Empower all consumers with tailored opportunities
Enable groups and communities to express priorities and access benefits

5. People just want bill savings?
New vision:
People also care about clean air, health, comfort
Communities care about resilience, local climate goals, local jobs

6. Consumers make bad decisions?
New vision:
Policies, incentives guide people’s decisions
Need to incentivize consumers and communities to adopt complimentary grid solutions

7. Central planning is better?
New vision:
Plan for people, not power plants
Plan to rely on policy-driven, consumer choices

8. New vision of consumer choice
Choice is about empowering people and communities
People and communities prioritize a diverse set of benefits
Policies guide consumer decisions
Planning should support and rely on policy-driven, consumer choices

9. Stephanie Wang Senior Policy Attorney Center for Sustainable Energy