Voices from Rural Electric Cooperatives: A Call for a DER Integration Playbook for Rural and Agricultural Income & Savings from Renewable Energy (RAISE)

Summary

Rural-serving electric utilities (RSEUs) across the United States face significant hurdles in integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar, wind, and battery storage due to contractual constraints, financial risks, and limited technical capacity. This report, based on interviews with nine cooperative managers, highlights these challenges and recommends developing a specialized DER Integration Playbook. The playbook aims to provide a flexible framework for RSEUs to assess readiness, explore local DER use cases, pilot projects, and integrate successful approaches.

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