A Practical Guide to Screening DER Opportunities
Distributed energy opportunities are relatively easy to identify.
The harder part is determining which ones are strong enough to justify
deeper engineering, development, financing, and capital allocation.
Better DER Decisions Start With Better Screening
Solar, battery storage, on-site generation, and hybrid systems can create
meaningful value, but the business case can vary significantly by site,
tariff, program, operating profile, reliability needs, and investment objective.
The DER Screening Playbook focuses on the front end of
that decision process: how to qualify an opportunity before significant
time and resources are committed.
What You’ll Learn
Start With the Investment Question
Define the objective before selecting the technology.
Build the Information Foundation
Understand the load, tariff, market, site, and reliability context.
Compare DER Pathways
Evaluate solar, storage, generation, and hybrid configurations.
Move From Screen to Decision
Determine whether an opportunity should advance, pause, be reconfigured, or stop.
Who Is the Playbook For?
The guide is designed for energy consultants and brokers, commercial and
industrial energy teams, developers and ESCOs, energy suppliers, and
strategic partners evaluating behind-the-meter distributed energy opportunities.
Get The DER Screening Playbook
Learn how to qualify distributed energy opportunities before committing
significant engineering, development, or capital resources.
