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“The utility is our enabler,” said Wood, former FERC chairman and former chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas. But the enabler has little financial incentive to enable distributed energy when it can make more money building transmission lines and centralized generation. “We have to think about the fact that utilities make a lot of money investing in capital. How can we make it that utility shareholders get just as much value out of helping customers save money?” Zibelman said. That misalignment slows everything down. “We’ve got to make sure that utility incentives are aligned with DER deployment,” " https://lnkd.in/eUf8z7G6