🌐 Plugged In: DER people Meet-Up - Therese Miranda-Blackney on innovative ownership structures for DERs

​Join us at 9Zero for a casual meetup on microgrids and distributed energy resources (DERs) — solar, storage, VPPs, demand response, and more. Whether you’re building projects or just starting to learn, you’re welcome to join us.

​This time we talk with Therese Miranda-Blackney about innovative ownership structures for DERs and their impact on grid operations. What are the pros and cons of emerging models, such as utility-owned distribution assets, distributed capacity procurement, 3rd party aggregations, or behind-the-meter deployments at data centers? ​​How does the ownership structure influence grid operations? And what can we expect as changes to tax credits drive higher level of third-party ownership?

​Therese will present examples of these emerging models to ground the conversation, before we turn to a group discussion of tradeoffs and other creative models for driving DER deployment.

​​Here’s the agenda:

• ​​Mingling, Name Tags + Snacks

• ​​Welcome + Intros

• ​​20 minute - Therese presents on DER ownership structures

• ​​10 min - Q&A with Therese

• ​​30 minutes -

  • ​​Small Group Chats – what technologies are you experimenting with? Where are you getting stuck? What trends or partnerships are you tracking?

  • ​​Open Networking + curated introductions to help connect participants with shared interests

​Therese Miranda-Blackney is the founder of Grid Future Strategies, a consultancy focused on scaling clean energy through product-market fit, commercial execution, and landscape analysis. Previously the Sr. Director of Innovation at LevelTen Energy and head of DER Strategy at Puget Sound Energy, she has over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between good ideas and wide-spread market adoption across startups, utilities, and policymaking. Therese specializes in translating complexity into results for startups and policymakers.

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