Full Title: Distributed Capacity Procurement: Unlocking Grid Value with Utility-Led DER Deployment
Author(s): Lakin Garth, Allison Wannop, and Pier Lafarge
Publisher(s): Smart Electric Power Alliance
Publication Date: July 5, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
DCP is a model for utilities to procure and utilize DERs at scale. Through DCP, utilities plan, deploy, own, and manage customer-sited DERs based on where they can provide the most grid value. Bringing customer-sited DERs into the core of utility planning and procurement transforms these assets into a scalable new source of verifiable, firm, and dispatchable capacity and infrastructure resources. Utility ownership and management provide the operational trust, safety, cybersecurity standards, and certainty of a utility-controlled resource.