ICC发布NextGrid报告草案

Illinois’ electric grid and utility market over the next few decades will be determined by NextGrid, 被称为“伊利诺斯未来效用研究”.“这18个月, collaborative study grew out of the December 2016 enactment of the Future 能源 Jobs Act (“FEJA”) and has been overseen by the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC).

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 advocates on behalf of the commercial office building industry with the belief that 可靠的 energy at a lower cost is critical for a robust and competitive business climate in the City of Chicago.  博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 representatives were active participants in NextGrid working groups and deliberations during the entire process.

国际刑事法院公布了265页的报告 NextGrid最终报告草案 在12月中旬. 然而, not all of positions and comments submitted by 博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 are reflected in the draft report.

报告按预期组织, 包括一个导论章节, 七章实质性内容(每个工作组一章), 及结束语.  它包括112个脚注, 9附录(包括BOMA/十大网赌靠谱网址平台利益相关者视角), 还有21个图表. There is only approximately one page of text dedicated to “Grid Modernization and Very Large Commercial and Industrial Customers” (starting in the middle of page 143).

研究中提出了一些普遍的建议. 例如:

• The growing prominence of distributed energy resources (DERs) and other smart grid technology elements necessitates formulation of new rules, 程序, 适当的政策.
• Modernization should consider actions that 具有成本效益的ly ensure that the grid operates as intended and adapts to future needs while remaining 可靠的, 有弹性的, 和安全.
• The ICC should create a process with a vision and develop a roadmap to explore retail market design.

以上只是报告内容的一部分, but the generic nature of the recommendations in the report may allow them to be used rhetorically in support of a variety of proposals and they are also subject to differing and conflicting interpretation.

1. 投资电动汽车充电基础设施;
2. Incentivize “公用事业公司 or other entities” to deploy energy storage resources (ESRs);
3. Enact customer privacy protection regulations for granular customer data.

The Concluding Remarks of the Draft Final Report references some consensus reached by the participants:

鉴于七个工作组参与的利益相关者范围广泛, it is not surprising that so many perspectives were expressed during the lengthy deliberations. 像这样, the apparent lack of agreement among the participants is expected. 然而, 毫无疑问, 尽管有大量的观点，其中一些, 有时, 而偏振, 参与的利益相关者有很多共同点. There is very broad interest in active participation to mitigate climate change impacts in every possible way. 几乎, all participants share the goal to make the grids greener through the continued integration of deeper penetrations of renewable energy resources (RERs) so as to reduce emissions. Stakeholders share the desire to pursue sustainable ways to meet energy needs. There is broad interest in adopting advances in technology to make the grids smarter, to deploy more sensors to improve visibility and situational awareness, to deploy analytics and data with finer granularity to provide enhanced information and to extend the benefits of cleaner and environmentally sensitive electricity by various electrification targets. Many stakeholders are clamoring for more customer education and training to take advantage of what the modernized grid offers. 事实上, it is clear that many stakeholders are keenly interested in the provision of help to 客户 to use technology to transform energy into creation of new opportunities. The affordability of electricity was also emphasized throughout all the deliberations.

然而, subsequent language emphasizes the failure of the stakeholders to agree, and calls for the creation of a collaborative framework to move forward:

The previous seven chapters make amply clear that there is considerable disagreement on nearly every aspect of grid modernization among the participating stakeholders. 像这样, there is no shortage of challenges in the push to pursue advancements on the grid modernization front. 当然, 监管机构和政策制定者, 公用事业公司, 供应商, 电力行业实体, 客户, 公益团体, 咨询顾问, academics and other interested stakeholders have widely different goals and objectives, 其中一些可能会相互冲突, 考虑到他们对现代化电网的期望.

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The challenge is to create a collaborative framework under which all the diverse stakeholders can participate in a meaningful way. 这可能不是一个容易的过程，但却是可行的，因此必须这样做. In this way it is possible to continue to make progress on the grid modernization front. As the beneficial outcomes of the modernized grid impact every stakeholder, there is every reason to pursue a joint collaborative process to ensure the achievement of a modernized and decarbonized grid to supply safe, 可靠的, 有弹性的, 具有成本效益的, 可持续和安全的电力服务.

国际刑事法院将在2019年1月10日前接受评论.

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 staff and its NextGrid 咨询顾问 continue to review the ICC's report. 博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台还聘请了Mark Pruitt及其咨询公司, 能源局, to complete a 博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 white paper which will be incorporated into public comments that 博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 will submit. It is notable that the ICC’s report did not include any discussion of costs associated with its specific and generalized recommendations and omitted references to a report that calculated billions of dollars in savings to Illinois consumers resulting from consumer choice. 博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台’s white paper will highlight cost elements that were identified and discussed in the NextGrid process.