California utilities, aggregators and customers to benefit from new DER laws: advocates

Utility Dive · Brian Martucci · 2026-10-28 11:09 UTC

One aggregator called device-level telemetry the “keystone” to extract value from multiple distributed energy resources behind the same meter.

Dive Brief:

- Two new state laws will significantly expand distributed energy resources’ wholesale market participation and virtual power plant opportunities in California, benefiting utilities, ratepayer and the state’s electric grid, energy system experts and company representatives told a webinar audience Friday.

- Growing public and policymaker attention on California’s energy “affordability crisis” helped SB 905 and SB 913 pass where previous legislative efforts to boost DERs failed, said Brandon García, California director for Advanced Energy United, the clean energy trade group that convened the webinar.

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