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.
March 31, 2020
Today, the Maryland Public Service Commission approved updates to small generator interconnection standards that ESA previously advocated. Key among the modifications is allowing the use of the net system capacity [...]Read More
March 17, 2020
ESA submits comments to the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) today broadly supportive of the state’s third revised draft of the ACC’s Energy Rules (Docket no. RU-00000A-18-0284). However, ESA recommends that [...]Read More
March 05, 2020
ESA filed comments yesterday on Michigan’s 2020 Distribution Planning Draft Staff Report for the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) consideration. The report provides recommendations to the Commissioners on utility electric [...]Read More
March 05, 2020
ESA will testify today in support of House Bill 5351 that would drive more energy storage deployment in Connecticut by establishing a target of 1,000 MW by 2030, as well [...]Read More
February 21, 2020
ESA will provide testimony today in front of the Maryland Ways and Means Committee in support of House Bill (HB) 980. The bill makes several modifications to improve the Maryland [...]Read More
January 17, 2020
ESA will file comments today with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) in response to the draft Energy Efficiency and Peak Demand Programs Straw Proposal issued on December [...]Read More
December 20, 2019
ESA will submit comments today in response to the Notice of Opportunity to File Written Comments that was requested by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission in UE-190698 on November [...]Read More
November 13, 2019
ESA will file comments today in response to the Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority’s notice for Solutions Days and stakeholder comments in the newly opened docket 17-12-03RE03 Investigation into Distribution System [...]Read More
November 08, 2019
ESA will file comments today at the New York Public Service Commission in response to an Order opening a new proceeding (19-E-0530) to examine the alignment of the resource adequacy [...]Read More
November 07, 2019
ESA submitted informal comments on Minnesota’s Energy Storage Cost-Benefit Analysis Study (required by the 2019 Omnibus Jobs and Energy Bill) outlining the regulatory hurdles facing energy storage in Minnesota and policy [...]Read More