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.
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
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