Advanced Energy United Reports

Publish Date: April 3, 2025

This report, authored by Advanced Energy United and DNV, examines the systemic barriers and emerging solutions for integrating Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and electrification technologies into the U.S. electric grid. As customer adoption of rooftop solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, and heat pumps accelerates, these technologies present both opportunities and challenges for grid modernization. While DERs can reduce energy costs, lower emissions, and enhance grid resilience, outdated interconnection processes, regulatory misalignment, and high infrastructure upgrade costs are slowing deployment. By identifying the most pressing obstacles and highlighting best practices, this report provides a roadmap for policymakers, utilities, and industry stakeholders to unlock the full value of DERs and drive a more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective energy system.

Publish Date: March 3, 2025

A new report from Baker Tilly shows solar power produced in Indiana would help Hoosiers meet a growing need for electricity. This need is driven by a surge in economic development.

The Baker Tilly report, Forecasting the Economic Impact Potential of Solar in Indiana, looked at all of the solar projects planned and slated to begin operation in Indiana by 2027. The report examines the tax benefit, local economic development gains, and job creation prospects should all planned projects proceed.

Publish Date: February 24, 2025

A new analysis finds that PJM’s slow and complex interconnection process prevented new energy supply from coming online, contributing to higher prices and potential retail rate hikes of up to 24% across the region. The report estimates that proactive transmission planning and interconnection reforms could have reduced consumer costs by as much as $7 billion, highlighting the urgent need for policy changes to accelerate new generation.

Publish Date: February 23, 2025

This online resource hub offers explainers, guidance, and a checklist tailored for state decision-makers on FERC’s groundbreaking transmission planning and cost allocation Order. The resources detail how the Order shapes states’ roles in the new processes that will be designed and implemented by transmission grid operators.

Publish Date: November 21, 2024

The process known as “generator interconnection” is invariably flawed across the U.S., causing significant and costly delays to adding new energy resources to the power grid. Regulators and energy developers alike are looking for efficiencies that can accelerate deployment of energy projects. Doing so is necessary to ensure energy system reliability, foster marketplace competition, meet future load growth, and create the broad economic benefits associated with meeting all those challenges.

Publish Date: October 24, 2024

In 2023, advanced energy employment nationwide increased by 4%, more than double the growth rate of the overall U.S. labor market. Advanced energy jobs surged from 2022 to 2023, with 4.1 million U.S. workers now working in the sector. Some of these gains were driven by the early impact of tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Publish Date: September 23, 2024

Publish Date: September 16, 2024

Historically, because transmission and distributed energy resources (DERs) exist on opposite ends of the electricity system, the two resources have often been planned, developed, and operated in silos. Conversations on the interplay between transmission and DERs often focus on these resources as substitutes for each other, rather than acknowledging the ways they can work in concert to achieve clean energy goals. However, as the clean energy revolution accelerates, the need for an integrated approach to energy infrastructure has never been more urgent.  

Publish Date: August 27, 2024

The “Generator Interconnection” process has taken center stage in energy policy debates in recent years, emerging as a key barrier to bringing new, cost-effective resources online to meet growing demand, maintain reliability, and ensure affordable electricity for customers. Last year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released Order No. 2023, directing transmission providers to improve their interconnection processes, primarily by instituting a first-ready first-served cluster study process, increased readiness requirements for interconnection projects, and firm deadlines for study completion. Though Order No. 2023 set a critical foundation, more can be done to make the interconnection process as efficient and expedited as possible.

Publish Date: July 23, 2024

Resource planning is becoming more complex for Nevada utilities. Growing electricity demand is putting pressure on Nevada’s grid. New variable renewable energy is changing how the grid operates. Increasingly frequent extreme weather threatens the safety and performance of electric infrastructure. Nevada needs low-cost, flexible solutions to help manage the grid and maintain reliability in the face of these pressures.