The New York Department of Public Service called on members of the state utility commission to revise rates to more accurately and efficiently compensate distributed energy generation, in a move that staff said could help drive an additional 1,000 megawatts of new community distributed generation. The staff recommends options that would allow developers and customers to better calculate the grid value as they look to finance distributed energy technologies. The staff also calls for providing additional opportunities for projects to qualify for market transition credits in areas with suboptimal markets. The credits enable projects to be compensated on par with net metering levels. New York has more than 800 megawatts of community distributed generation under development, more than what was installed across the entire nation last year.