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 01, 2020
ESA submitted comments on 10/1/2020 in response to MISO’s Markets Subcommittee’s questions on hybrid generation resources (Issue Tracking ID#: IR086). ESA specifically commented on the definition of hybrid resources, the [...]Read More
October 01, 2020
ESA submitted comments on 9/23/2020 to the MISO Resource Adequacy Subcommittee on surplus interconnection treatment and hybrid resource accreditation (Issue Tracking ID#: IR086). ESA’s comments expressed support for MISO’s proposal [...]Read More
September 23, 2020
Today, ESA joined with RENEW Northeast to file a reply brief in proceedings under Docket No. EL20-54 at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding changes to ISO New England [...]Read More
July 01, 2020
ESA submitted comments today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Docket No. RM20-10-000, pursuant to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in this docket on March 20, 2020. [...]Read More
March 02, 2020
Today ESA submitted a comment in support of PJM’s motion to put proceedings at FERC on hold while it pursues a stakeholder process to develop rules on capacity market eligibility [...]Read More
January 21, 2020
In response to a filing by Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) in Docket No. ER20-588 on rules for the storage-as-a-transmission-only asset (SATOA), ESA will file comments today at FERC seeking [...]Read More
January 10, 2020
In response to the filing by Southwest Power Pool (SPP) in Docket No. ER20-572 formalizing its 4-hour qualification standard for storage in resource adequacy, ESA will file comments today at [...]Read More
January 10, 2020
In its ruling on PJM’s Order 841 compliance plan in October 2019, FERC (1) directed PJM to submit tariff provisions detailing the standard for capacity qualification applicable to all resources [...]Read More
December 05, 2019
ESA filed comments at FERC in support of PJM’s request to extend the deadline for opening briefs in the proceeding on capacity qualification of storage, which FERC ordered in response [...]Read More
December 05, 2019
ESA filed comments focused on the treatment of hybrid storage-plus-generation resources in FERC’s proposed reforms to implementing sections 201 and 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). Specifically, [...]Read More