A commercial or industrial customer can use PAT to evaluate energy procurement opportunities for some or all of its facilities across the United States. The user can then identify the most cost-effective energy procurement options while considering geographic, technological, and other constraints.
Local governments can evaluate opportunities to procure utility-scale energy to meet the needs of the facilities that it operates to carry out city services, or explore pathways to procure electricity for part or all of the electricity consumption within their jurisdiction.
Higher education institutions or similar large research organizations can use PAT to evaluate utility-scale energy procurement opportunities that meet their needs. This could include evaluating facilities where they conduct research or classes, as well as housing, operations, and other facilities.
Electric service providers, utilities, and other load- serving entities can use PAT to assess potential interest in new utility-scale energy procurement programs, such as green tariffs. They can also evaluate the potential impacts of certain customers pursuing utility-scale renewable energy to meet portions of the load served by the provider.
State regulatory bodies, such as public utility commissions, can use the tool to evaluate or plan for potential interest in specific voluntary utility-scale energy procurement programs within their regulatory authority.
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