{"id":3631,"date":"2016-05-24T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/environment.law.harvard.edu\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:56:42","slug":"clinic-submits-comments-massachusetts-grid-modernization-proceedings-electric-rate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2016\/05\/24\/clinic-submits-comments-massachusetts-grid-modernization-proceedings-electric-rate-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Submits Comments in Massachusetts Grid Modernization Proceedings and Electric Rate Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2016, the Clinic submitted comments to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (\u201cDPU\u201d) in <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2016\/04\/Comments-on-D.P.U.-15-120-15-121-15-122-from-Harvard-Law-Schools-Emmett-Environmental-Law-Policy-Clinic.pdf\">grid modernization proceedings<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2016\/04\/Comments-from-Harvard-Law-School-Environmental-Law-Policy-Clinic-on-D.P.U15-155.pdf\">electric rate case<\/a>. The Clinic asked DPU to apply a holistic energy justice perspective to decisions affecting electricity rates and the integration of, and access to, innovative technologies to the electric grid. The Clinic also proposed mechanisms to support the development of virtual power plants, which can help meet the Commonwealth\u2019s energy and environmental goals. Clinic students Nadia Arid (\u201916) and Jee Yun Oh (\u201917) testified at DPU\u2019s public hearing on utilities\u2019 proposed grid modernization plans. The Clinic\u2019s comments were reported on in <a href=\"http:\/\/microgridknowledge.com\/virtual-power-plants\/\">Microgrid Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2016, the Clinic submitted comments to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (\u201cDPU\u201d) in grid modernization proceedings and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}