About MADRI
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MADRI News |
- NEW! The next MADRI Working Group meeting will be held on Friday, June 27, in Trenton, NJ. Details available soon.
- The 2nd PJM Symposium on Demand Response will be held May 12-13, 2008, at the Hilton at BWI Airport. More >
- MADRI Working Group Meeting #16 was held in Philadelphia on March 4, 2008. View presentations
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The Mid-Atlantic Distributed Resources Initiative (MADRI) seeks to identify and remedy retail
barriers to the deployment of distributed generation, demand response and energy efficiency
in the Mid-Atlantic region. MADRI was established in 2004 by the public utility commissions of
Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, along with the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) and PJM Interconnection.
The guiding principle for MADRI is a belief that distributed resources should compete with
generation and transmission to ensure grid reliability and a fully functioning wholesale electric
market. However, institutional barriers and lack of market incentives appear to be slowing
deployment of cost-effective distributed resources in the Mid-Atlantic.
To be added to the MADRI e-mail list, please contact Rich Sedano at RAPSedano@aol.com.
State Activities
Recent State Activities
Maryland PSC Decouples Utility Rates
On July 20, 2007, the Maryland Public Service Commission approved a new rate mechanism for the state's largest utilities that "decouples" rates and thus eliminates a disincentive for the utilities to promote energy efficiency and demand response. The new rate mechanism allows the utilities to increase their rates for power distribution to make up for lost revenues if the demand for electricity drops, thereby decoupling their revenues from electricity sales. See the Maryland PSC press release (PDF 48 KB)
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