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Grid reliability concerns are rising along with electricity demand growth. As regulators and grid planners prepare for potential future outages, current experienced outages need to also be evaluated to make sure that customers are paying for grid investments that actually meet their needs.

To produce an affordable, reliable grid, regulators and grid planners can:

➡️ Use RMI’s new Reliability Dashboard to learn more about state reliability, inform system planning practices, and improve the way that reliability data is tracked and reported.

➡️ Deploy available technologies that address the specific reliability issues localities face today, keeping in mind the evolving grid.

➡️ Intentionally plan for resilience to major events via improved forecasting and infrastructure.

As utilities ask consumers to pay more for their investments amid soaring bills, data-backed and informed decisions matter now more than ever.

Reliability Explored: What a Decade of Data Tells Us About US Grid Reliability - RMI RMI’s new grid Reliability Dashboard can bhelp grid planners target solutions to reduce customer outages.

US governors can work independently or with a variety of other actors to promote energy affordability for households and businesses in their states.

Energy affordability is a complex problem that needs holistic solutions. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to address the challenges driving energy costs. RMI’s Electricity Affordability Toolkit identifies affordability policies across four key focus areas: safeguards for vulnerable customers, cost control, cost distribution, and customer agency.

Across the country, we found that governors addressed each of these types of policies, with cost control policies being the most popular. https://ow.ly/jXWQ50Z2jvB

Grid reliability concerns are rising along with electricity demand growth in the US. Regulators and grid planners need to evaluate current outages to make sure that customers are paying for grid investments that actually meet their needs.

Over the past decade, extreme weather and failures on the distribution system — the lower-voltage wires connecting homes and businesses to the bulk electric grid — have been the primary causes of customer outages in the US.

Recent policy decisions have focused on energy generation to address reliability, but the amount of energy available and where it comes from matters little to a customer if their distribution system fails to deliver it to them. Intentional planning for resilient infrastructure is key to advancing reliability for all customers.

Use RMI’s new Reliability Dashboard to learn more about your state’s reliability, inform system planning practices, and improve the way that reliability data is tracked and reported so that grid investments truly reduce customer outages ➡️ https://ow.ly/3TcG50Z3mxH