New Jersey Board of Public Utilities document that outlines specific filing obligations for utilities, including how they must demonstrate technical readiness, implementation plans, and stakeholder engagement for advanced metering infrastructure data access.

Mandates development of a resilience and reliability roadmap focusing on use of microgrids.

Envisions use of IEEE 2030.5 for telemetry and advanced smart inverter functions for operational flexibility.

Order from the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission approving the design and framework for implementation of a statewide Multi-Use Energy Data Platform. The platform is envisioned to enable customers and third-party energy providers to access energy consumption data from electric and gas utilities using Green Button Connect protocols.

This report, written to assist the Arkansas Public Service Commission, discusses the regulatory considerations for allowing third-party aggregators to participate in energy markets. It emphasizes the importance of establishing a code of conduct to ensure fair competition between utilities and aggregators, protect consumer interests, and create a robust market environment.

A framework for integrating grid edge resources focused on establishing defined retail energy and distribution grid services, including rate design such as the implementation of time-of-use rates to incentivize customers to align energy consumption with grid needs; grid edge resource programs that compensat customers for energy exports and grid services, like the introduction of the smart grid edge resource tariff and bring-your-own-device tariff; and streamlining interconnection processes and updating technical standards to facilitate grid edge resource participation.

A Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decision and order that approved a microgrid services tariff for the Hawaiian Electric Companies. The tariff's purpose is to promote microgrid development and remove regulatory barriers so that microgrids can operate during emergencies. In this phase 1 order, the PUC eliminated certain constraints—for example, it removed a program size cap and operator fees and declined to impose standby charges—to encourage microgrids to serve customers during outages. The order established the framework for microgrid project agreements (including a standard hybrid microgrid agreement) and included an microgrid participants' bill of rights to ensure service and safety standards for customers. Outstanding issues (e.g., compensation for services in non-emergency periods) were deferred to a phase 2 proceeding.

Recommendations on adopting Minimum Statewide Default Standards (MSDS) for smart inverters or distribution utility-specific inverter settings.
IEEE 1547-2018 smart inverter functions of importance and associated policies and defaults proposed by the working group for statewide standards.

Orders the creation of a standardized statewide data access framework in New York, governing access to energy-related data, enabling customers to securely share their energy usage information with authorized third parties, thereby facilitating grid edge resource integration and participation in energy markets.

Provides definitions for the Community Solar Act, provides specifics of nameplate capacity limits and minimum subscriber limits, provides exceptions for native community solar projects, details of facility ownership, and provides subscription requirements and administration process (bill credits application, and treatment of Renewable Energy Certificates).

This order establishes the Integrated Energy Data Resource (IEDR), a statewide platform for unified access to customer and system data that supports grid edge resource integration. The IEDR collects, integrates, and manages a variety of energy-related data, including granular customer usage data from all utilities, and makes it accessible to authorized stakeholders through secure interfaces. The goal is to unleash the power of integrated energy customer and system data to accelerate energy deployment and innovation. The order requires utilities to ensure that customer usage data can be accessed through the IEDR with customer authorization, in compliance with the Data Access Framework rules. This centralized data-sharing mechanism supports customer and third-party access to energy information, enabling broader participation in grid edge resource programs and energy markets across the state.

Adopts rates, tariffs, and rules facilitating the commercialization of microgrids.

The Integrated Energy Data Resource is a statewide centralized platform designed to provide effective access to useful energy data and information from New York’s utilities and other sources. Its goal is to support innovative energy business models, inform investment decisions, identify operational inefficiencies, monitor policy effectiveness, and encourage new business models to benefit New York energy customers.

Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities initiated Docket 20-75 in 2020 to explore compensation mechanisms for resilience services provided by grid edge resources. This investigation supports the implementation of the peak energy standard, aiming to incentivize alternative energy technologies during peak demand periods. The docket focuses on planning, cost allocation for grid edge resource interconnection, and resilience value.

Regulatory order that establishes baseline cybersecurity and data privacy requirements that any third-party energy service entity must meet to access utility customer data or IT systems. The order balances protecting utility systems and customer information with enabling authorized data sharing . It creates a universal foundation of cyber and privacy standards for entities like energy service companies and grid edge resource providers that exchange data with utilities.

Mandates electric utilities as a part of the grid edge resource planning process to identify data gaps and required upgrades—advanced metering, grid monitoring equipment, and simulation tools—as well as considering wires and NWA in the planning process.

Defines Community Solar Garden. Sets minimum number of subscribers at 10. Sets the upper bound of nameplate capacity at 5 MW. Subscriber location needs to be in the same service territory.

Directs the Commission to develop a methodology for evaluating the costs and benefits of using grid edge resources for NWA.

The New York PSC established a standardized aggregator code of conduct to ensure fair, transparent grid edge resource markets. It sets uniform rules for marketing, data sharing, and customer protections—prohibiting deceptive practices, defining rights and responsibilities, and requiring standardized disclosures and utility coordination to support oversight and ethical aggregator operations.

As part of broader direction from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on aspects related to integrated distribution planning, this order outlines non-wires alternatives analysis that Xcel Energy should perform.