The CEC has taken a step toward making millions of households part of demand response efforts designed to avoid blackouts.

ISO-NE told the NEPOOL Markets Committee that the RTO would seek an extension of the compliance deadline for FERC Order 2222 until February 2022.

FERC approved requests by MISO, SPP and PJM to delay their Order 2222 compliance filings by up to nine months.

Maine’s Public Utilities Commission has agreed to open a formal investigation into Central Maine Power’s distributed generation interconnection practices.

FERC reversed its ruling giving state regulators power to prevent demand response from participating in DER aggregations.

Stakeholders told FERC that the proposed Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) doesn’t go far enough to increase competition.

NYISO kicked off an effort to create a market participation model for hybrid storage aggregation resources.

Distributed energy resources will function best in MISO’s markets if aggregations are limited to a single pricing node, RTO officials said.

NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee took a number of actions regarding DER standards and committee subgroups in a two-day meeting.

The Rhode Island PUC rejected a proposal from National Grid to remove barriers for low-income customers to access clean energy.