The Microgrids Working Group is hosting facilitated discussions between State Energy Offices and PUCs to explore microgrid technologies and applications, policy and regulatory frameworks, and financing models to understand the full range of benefits that microgrids can provide to owners / operators, ratepayers, and other stakeholders. A key objective of the Working Group is to highlight and draw lessons from existing microgrid projects. NARUC and NASEO are jointly leading this work in close collaboration with the DOE Office of Electricity and are relying on state input to guide this collaborative initiative.

If you are interested in joining the Working Group, please reach out to Kelsey Jones (kjones@naseo.org.

Staff Contacts

Kelsey Jones Kelsey Jones Program Director

Kelsey Jones

Program Director

Kelsey Jones supports NASEO's electricity program by conducting research and analysis on a variety of state electricity policy and program issues including energy storage, microgrids, carbon management, and hydrogen. Prior to NASEO, Ms. Jones worked at the Nuclear Energy Institute assisting the political affairs and advocacy programs and as a graduate research assistant studying renewable energy development in Arctic cities. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Florida and a Master of Environmental Resource Policy from the George Washington University.

Webinars
  • NASEO-NARUC Microgrids State Working Group Webinar - Powering Data Centers through Microgrids (December 2024)
  • Webinar: Improving Energy Resilience with Rural and Remote Microgrids (May 2024)
  • NASEO-NARUC Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) and Microgrids State Working Groups Joint Webinar: Demand Flexibility and Electrified Transportation (February 2024)
  • NASEO-NARUC Microgrids State Working Group Webinar: State Microgrid Policy, Programmatic, and Regulatory Framework (September 2023)
  • NASEO-NARUC Microgrids State Working Group: Innovative Microgrid Project Designs (March 2023)
  • NASEO-NARUC Microgrids State Working Group: Risk-controlled Expansion Planning With Distributed Resources (REPAIR) (November 2022)
  • NASEO-NARUC Microgrids State Working Group: Microgrids for Community and City Resilience Planning (June 2022)
  • NASEO- NARUC Virtual Workshop: Microgrid Regulatory and Programmatic Strategies (March 2022)
  • NASEO-NARUC Briefing: Valuing Resilience and Supporting Clean Energy Microgrids (March 2022)
  • Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Briefing and State Roundtable (December 2021)
  • Microgrid Tariff Development in Hawaii and California (September 2021)
  • Microgrids for LMI Communities (June 2021)
  • Strategies for Resilient Microgrid Deployment (April 2021)
  • NASEO-NARUC Briefing Reports on Microgrid Financing and Use Cases (March 2021)
  • Achieving Community Resilience through Microgrids (January 2021)
  • Utility Microgrid Procurement (August 2020)
  • Getting Microgrids to Market - Regulatory and Business Models for Resilience (July 2020)
  • The Future of Microgrids: A Virtual Site Visit to Scheider Electric's Global R&D Center (July 2020)
  • Getting Microgrids to Market - Regulatory and Business Models for Resilience (July 2020)
  • Microgrid Planning and Deployment for Community Resilience (May 2020)
NARUC-NASEO Microgrids State Working Group Roundtable (February 2020)