Researchers made several recommendations and warned multiple fixes to interconnection processes would be needed. “No single solution is a silver bullet,” they said.

The paper recommended an end to the model of cost allocation for grid upgrades known as cost causation by spreading distribution system upgrade costs over a broader set of stakeholders than the projects applying for interconnection.

Another suggestion is to study proposed storage resources in a way that reflects how the resources would reasonably be expected to operate once interconnected.