State legislatures and regulators have been the key drivers of energy storage policy over the past several years, with energy policies and decisions related to our local electric power distribution systems are primarily made by state legislators and regulators.
ESA’s policy team, with the help of our members and allies on the ground, are engaging with state commissions, legislatures and governor’s offices to open up the storage market.
July 16, 2021
ESA and NECEC co-filed written exceptions on 7/16 to the Connecticut Public Utility Regulation Authority (“PURA”) Proposed Final Decision for a 580 MW customer-sited energy storage program. ESA and NECEC [...]Read More
July 02, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) issued a draft order on 7/1 that would approve a 580 MW energy storage program for customer-sited energy storage systems. The Order closely resembles the straw [...]Read More
June 03, 2021
ESA submitted comments to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (“UTC”) on 6/2 in response to the Commission’s Notice seeking input on the treatment of energy storage for compliance with the recently-passed Clean Energy [...]Read More
May 27, 2021
ESA filed comments today responding to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (“BPU”) Solar Successor Program Straw Proposal. The Straw Proposal included competitive solicitations for solar-plus-storage hybrids, using a single incentive payment [...]Read More
May 21, 2021
On 5/20, the Connecticut Senate passed SB 952, which will set a target of 1 GW of energy storage to be achieved by 2030. ESA testified in support of SB 952 in [...]Read More
May 12, 2021
The U.S. Energy Storage Association (ESA) provided testimony yesterday in opposition to SB 328, which would require that all nonresidential energy storage systems to be installed by persons who have [...]Read More
April 05, 2021
ESA and the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) co-filed a summary brief in Connecticut Public Utility Regulation Authority’s (PURA) docket on its Energy Storage Straw Proposal. The straw proposal includes upfront [...]Read More
March 04, 2021
ESA testified at the Connecticut General Assembly today in support of SB 952, which will set a 1 GW energy storage target to be achieved by 2030. With its passage, [...]Read More
February 24, 2021
ESA submitted responses today to interrogatories from Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), following the February 1 technical meeting on PURA’s Energy Storage Straw Proposal. ESA recommended that Connecticut’s Energy Storage Program provide [...]Read More
February 24, 2021
ESA filed comments today in response to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission investigation into the use of energy storage as a distribution asset. ESA provided examples of various use cases of energy storage to [...]Read More