This paper is the result of a series of workshops with industry, government and nonprofit leaders focused on helping guide future utility investments
and planning for a new distributed generation system. The distributed grid is the final stage in the delivery of electric power linking electricity
sub-stations to customers. To date, no state has initiated a comprehensive effort that includes the planning,
design-build and operational requirements for large
scale integration of DER into state-wide distributed
generation systems. This paper provides a framework and guiding principles for how to initiate such a
system and can be used to implement California law
AB 327 passed in 2013 requiring investor owned
utilities to submit a DER plan to the CPUC by July
2015 that identifies their optimal deployment
locations
