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Beckers SB 541 seeks to unlock local load flexibility, requires reporting and distribution planning changes
Summary
Sen. Beckers SB 541 would require reporting and planning changes to encourage local load flexibility and demand shifting as a tool to lower peak demand and delay distribution upgrades.
Sen. Becker presented SB 541 to the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee as a measure to increase the use of load flexibility (demand shifting) to reduce peak demand and avoid distribution upgrades.
The bill would require the California Energy Commission to report estimates of each load-serving entitys cost-effective load-shifting potential and how much has been captured in near-term plans, and would require investor-owned utilities to provide data and consider local load flexibility in annual…
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