The linked docket desrcribes Oncor's system resiliency plan, which describes the company's proposed grid upgrades and enhancements to address severe weather outages and other physical and cybersecurity risks. The plan focuses on overhead and underground resiliency and modernization, distribution automation, vegetation management, wildfire mitigation, and enhanced physical security (asset monitoring and protection) and cyber risk mitigation.
Georgia Power Grid Edge Resource Customer Resiliency Service Pilot (RAS-1 & DRC-1 Tariffs)
Component
Business
Author
Georgia Power Company (Southern Company)
Stakeholder
Georgia Power (Utility); Commercial & Industrial Customer Participants (multi-site aggregations allowed); Georgia Public Service Commission (Regulator)
Georgia Power's pilot enhances grid resilience by installing and owning dispatchable grid edge resources (e.g., batteries, generators) at Commercial and Industrial customer sites. Customers sign resiliency service agreements, aggregating ≥1 MW across facilities (≥200 kW each). In return for a monthly service fee, they receive full-value bill credits when grid edge resources are dispatched during grid emergencies or outages. The program defines clear eligibility, compensation terms, and operational rules for islanding and demand response events.
Decision to adopt a framework for substation microgrid resiliency solutions to mitigate public safety power shutoffs for Pacific Gas and Electric company
Component
Institutional
Author
California Public Utilities Commission
Stakeholder
California Public Utilities Commission
Framework for substation microgrids to mitigate public safety power shutoffs. The framework comprises eight essential elements: (1) a 10-year historical lookback analysis; (2) emissions performance standards; (3) technology market development standards; (4) an alternatives analysis; (5) a procurement strategy; (6) a rate architecture and cost allocation methodology; (7) demand response measures; and (8) community engagement and access measures.
Rhode Island System Reliability Procurement (SRP) Program
Component
Business
Author
Rhode Island PUC
Stakeholder
National Grid, grid edge resource developers, residential, and commercial customers
The Rhode Island System Reliability Procurement program establishes compensation structures that incentivize third-party providers to deliver resilience services. Grid edge resource owners receive performance-based incentives for resilience services, such as load reduction, frequency regulation, and islanding support.
Mass Investigation by the Department of Public Utilities into Establishing Commonwealth Clean Peak Energy Standard Protocols; Docket 20-75
Component
Institutional
Author
Massachusetts DPU
Stakeholder
Eversource, National Grid, clean energy advocacy groups, storage and grid edge resource developers
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.