As the U.S. grid incorporates energy storage systems, ESA has worked to educate staff and commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on the role of energy storage in competitive energy markets. Our main priority is that federal regulators remove impediments and reward innovation in open markets for ancillary services, non-organized markets, and other applications for advanced energy storage technologies.
October 17, 2019
Today the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order that PJM must place rules regarding the capacity qualification of energy storage resources in its tariff, siding with ESA’s complaint that such rules [...]Read More
August 21, 2019
Today ESA will file a complaint at FERC in Docket No. ER 19-2505 regarding proposed changes to SCE’s Wholesale Distribution Access Tariff (WDAT). Specifically, ESA seeks to ensure cost-causation principles are reflected [...]Read More
August 20, 2019
ESA filed comments with FERC yesterday in support of New York state agencies’ complaints to FERC (Docket No. EL19-86) over NYISO’s buyer-side mitigation rules as applied to energy storage technologies. [...]Read More
July 01, 2019
ESA will file comments today responding to PJM’s most recent Answer defending its rules on the qualification of storage capacity its Order 841 compliance plan. Specifically, ESA describes how our prior complaint and [...]Read More
June 26, 2019
ESA filed a complaint today at FERC regarding ISO-NE’s proposed approach to surplus interconnection service in its proposed compliance with Order 845 & 845-A. Specifically, ESA argues that ISO-NE’s proposal to require surplus interconnection service [...]Read More
June 25, 2019
In response to FERC’s Notice of Inquiry regarding its transmission incentives policy, ESA today filed brief comments broadly supportive of a mechanism to reward investments like energy storage that can improve the [...]Read More
April 26, 2019
ESA and several energy storage industry member companies signed a formal settlement agreement with PJM, resolving a long-standing dispute over changes in 2017 to the PJM Regulation market. The Federal Energy Regulatory [...]Read More
April 12, 2019
ESA submitted to FERC a response to PJM’s Answer to complaints by ESA and other stakeholders regarding its compliance plan with Order 841. Specifically, ESA argues that PJM’s proposal to limit capacity offers of storage resources [...]Read More
March 29, 2019
ESA filed responses to the Answers of ISO-NE and NYISO to ESA’s original complaint on Order 841 compliance, as well as SPP’s request for delay. In response to ISO-NE’s stated willingness to revisit its redeclaration [...]Read More
February 07, 2019
Today, ESA will submit responses at FERC to the plans filed by each RTO (PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, MISO, SPP, and CAISO) to comply with Order 841. While ESA is generally supportive [...]Read More