This report was completed in December, 2016 by the Home/Building/Industry-to-Grid Domain Expert Working Group for SGIP. The emergence of smart grid technologies, improved methods for communicating prices, and greater variability of outputs from energy sources challenges the traditional, regulatory administered, closed system electricity pricing model. This report argues the traditional utility structure needs to incorporate or replicate market-driven price incentives to avoid diminishing the potential benefits of emerging technologies.

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