This guidebook is a knowledge product from the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA), an innovative public-private partnership initiative that addresses barriers to scaling the deployment of clean energy solutions for commercial and industrial consumers in emerging markets. CEIA explores solutions for procuring renewable energy by helping purchasers overcome clean energy barriers, strengthening the local policy enabling environment, and unlocking a pipeline of private sector clean energy projects.
This paper discusses the role of State Energy Offices and Public Utility Commissions in furthering the development of microgrids to satisfy customer and system needs, emphasizing the important role of these entities as conveners to facilitate productive collaboration among diverse stakeholders. Many of the regulatory and policy barriers to microgrid development are complex and have no one-size-fits-all solution.
