Wisconsin builds a distributed resources collaborative: Looking for local solutions that work
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has an Advance Plan process, a sort of rolling review of the state`s electric energy industry. The intent is, of course, to identify issues and potential problems in advance, and then make the appropriate mid-course corrections to the long-range, least-cost integrated resource plan that is the heart of the Advance Plan. All utilities which do business in the State are required to participate in the process, and all of them do, with varying degrees of enthusiasm. The Advance Plan process has been in place for twenty years. Every two or three years, the Commission squeezes off another round. The process is deliberate, time-consuming and, judging by the high quality and low price of the service, it is effective. Some Advance Plans are more exciting than others, but not by much. AP-7 will wind up in late autumn of 1995. Its contentious issues appear to be energy efficiency, and renewables. One AP-7 issue that many thought would be a flash point, was hardly noticed at all. Why that happened is the subject of this report.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Barakat and Chamberlin, Inc., Oakland, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 226970
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-105791; CONF-9508115-; TRN: 96:001839-0022
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1. annual distributed resources conference: planning for a competitive market, Kansas City, MO (United States), 29-31 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Distributed resources 1995: Planning for a competitive market. EPRI`s first annual distributed resources conference proceedings; PB: 400 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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