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Utah commissioners hear policy options for 'latency‑first' flexible interconnection and incentive mechanisms
Summary
Grid Care urged the commission to consider a 'latency‑first' interconnection track and performance incentives (rate adders or carrots) so utilities can bring flexible large loads onto the system sooner without compromising reliability; commissioners pressed on incentives, verification and who bears responsibility.
During a technical briefing to the Utah Public Service Commission, Grid Care urged regulators to adopt a non‑binary approach to interconnection decisions for large loads: negotiate deliverable hours per year and qualify provider resources so utilities can rely on them under contingency.
"Instead of providing me a yes or no, provide me a curve," Ran Rajikop said, explaining that a customer and utility could settle on how many hours per year a requested output is deliverable and…
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