The report titled "The Economics of Grid Defection" discusses the competition between distributed solar generation and traditional utility services. The authors of the report, Peter Bronski, Jon Creyts, Leia Guccione, Maite Madrazo, James Mandel, Bodhi Rader, and Dan Seif, are affiliated with Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, nonprofit think-and-do tank that focuses on advancing market-based solutions for a clean, prosperous, and secure future. The report was published in February 2014 and can be downloaded from the RMI website. CohnReznick Think Energy, LLC, a full-service renewable energy consulting firm, and Homer Energy, LLC, a company that provides software, consulting, and market access services for distributed power systems, were also involved in the research.
