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The "Playbook for Advocates and Regulators" is a guide providing a checklist for advocates and regulators to manage cost allocation and recovery for distribution investments. It emphasizes asking critical questions during pre-filing, planning, and ratemaking proceedings to clarify risk exposure and protect ratepayers from inaccurate load or distributed energy resource (DER) forecasts.

This policy brief by RMI provides four recommendations for Public Utility Commissions (PUCs) to improve the evaluation of Performance Incentive Mechanisms (PIMs). The document emphasizes the need for recurring evaluations, transparency through public dashboards, portfolio-wide assessments to avoid duplication, and the use of design guidelines to measure net benefits to customers.

This report outlines the risks and needs of low-income (LI) and fixed-income (FI) electricity customers during the transition to a distributed energy resource (DER) and renewable electricity system. It identifies financial and social concerns, maps existing and unmet needs, and examines case studies to determine how these segments can be equitably integrated into a high-DER future.