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As utilities expand beyond power delivery, this report shares survey insights on microgrids and other value-added services—like EV support, DERs, and demand response—that help meet sustainability goals and evolving customer needs.
With the imperative to provide sustainable energy increasingly joining the safe, reliable, and affordable mandate, the idea that utilities can provide value-added services beyond just delivering electricity and gas has gained momentum around the United States. Value-added services are broadly defined as a utility’s programmatic offerings to customers outside the traditional business of delivering safe, reliable, and affordable system power and gas.
Examples of value-added services utilities are offering today include support and incentives for:
In this special report, we share results from a survey of utility leaders revealing their views on developing microgrids as value-added services for customers, then explore the vanguard of value-added services related to EVs, DERs, demand response and more offered by six leading utilities from around the country