🚨Virginia's grid utilization metrics are live!🚨
41% and 33%.
Those are the grid utilization metrics that @DominionEnergy just filed for distribution and transmission with the @VAStateCorpComm.
This is a big moment for the energy industry: it’s the first time a U.S. utility has filed a comprehensive grid utilization metrics proposal under a state law.
Congratulations to Dominion Energy for a thoughtful and serious proposal that helps start this conversation across the industry. We agree with their assessment that “system-level results may obscure localized differences among feeders, substations, and geographic areas,” and we see value in providing more granular data.
These average annual metrics may seem low, but utilization is of course much higher at peak (Dominion reported 78.3% “transformer general utilization at local peaks,” for instance). That’s the core point of our recent Beyond Peak white paper: during off-peak hours, there’s significant capacity on the existing grid that can be unlocked through greater flexibility.
Link to Dominion’s full filing in the thread.
41% and 33%.
Those are the grid utilization metrics that @DominionEnergy just filed for distribution and transmission with the @VAStateCorpComm.
This is a big moment for the energy industry: it’s the first time a U.S. utility has filed a comprehensive grid utilization metrics proposal under a state law.
Congratulations to Dominion Energy for a thoughtful and serious proposal that helps start this conversation across the industry. We agree with their assessment that “system-level results may obscure localized differences among feeders, substations, and geographic areas,” and we see value in providing more granular data.
These average annual metrics may seem low, but utilization is of course much higher at peak (Dominion reported 78.3% “transformer general utilization at local peaks,” for instance). That’s the core point of our recent Beyond Peak white paper: during off-peak hours, there’s significant capacity on the existing grid that can be unlocked through greater flexibility.
Link to Dominion’s full filing in the thread.
