On November 17, the FERC released a new rule proposal that could help push U.S. energy markets to adopt energy storage systems at a faster pace by allowing distributed energy resources.
DERs
FERC Wants To Open Up Energy Markets To Distributed Energy
By Thomas Burton III & Sahir Surmeli | Mintz Levin - Energy & Sustainability MattersSign up and get Breaking Energy news in your inbox.
We will never sell or share your information without your consent. See our privacy policy.New York Adopts New Revenue Model For Electric Utilities Under REV
By Enerknol Research
Outcomes from Expanded Earning Opportunities, Information Access, and Competition Could Influence Utility Reform Nationwide Key Takeaways: The New York State Public Service Commission (NY PSC) Order to adopt a policy framework for ratemaking and revenue models aims to better align utility financial interests with consumer benefits The framework will add market-based platform earnings and outcome-based… Keep reading →
New York State Continues Its Push To Reform State Utility Markets
By Michael Hecker | Hodgson Russ LLP
On May 19, 2016, the New York State Public Service Commission (the “PSC”) released Filing No. 749 entitled “Order Adopting a Ratemaking and Utility Revenue Model Policy Framework,” which was made in furtherance of the State’s focus on utility operations increasing their renewable sources of energy in the State.
Department Of Energy Announces 12 New Projects To Accelerate Technologies That Improve The Efficiency And Reliability Of The U.S. Electric Grid
By U.S. Department of Energy
WASHINGTON— The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $33 million in funding for 12 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems (NODES) program. NODES project teams will develop technologies that coordinate load and generation on the electric grid to create a virtual energy storage system. The teams will… Keep reading →
A Stealth Tool To Modernize The Electric Grid
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
Electricity regulators, clean energy innovators, and rappers have all lamented poor communication. And some have pushed for cleaner, cheaper, more reliable solutions for meeting our energy needs. This is particularly so with the much anticipated emergence of a new kind of non-event based, price-responsive demand response (DR), or flexible DR. Whereas traditional DR signals customers… Keep reading →
Cloudy future For some time, computing, data processing and storage have been migrating to the “cloud.” Now, people are talking about the energy cloud, where distributed energy resources (DERs) making use of intelligent devices, storage and a smart grid connect all manner of distributed loads and resources to meet customers’ energy service needs. Future is… Keep reading →
