NESCOE called on ISO-NE to increase its transparency and the role of states, saying the current structure is incompatible with their clean energy efforts.

A 2019 outage involving DERs and offshore wind in the UK exposed gaps in the understanding of the rapidly changing generation portfolio.

ISO-NE presented the PAC with potential study conditions to identify transmission needs under increased penetration of distributed, renewable and storage resources.

FERC ordered RTOs and ISOs to open their markets to distributed energy resource aggregations now largely limited to providing demand response.

FERC has sided with the Wabash Valley Power Association in a skirmish with a cooperative member over its distributed generation rules.

PJM stakeholders unanimously endorsed the development of business rules to address a market suspension from an emergency or some other incident.

Smart building design can play a central role in California’s drive to decarbonize, according to a panel convened by the Energy Commission.

CAISO presented its final proposal of its effort to make it easier for energy storage and distributed energy resources to participate in markets.

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness told the board that load has begun to return to pre-COVID-19 levels, as evidenced by energy usage in June and July.

Experts said it’s mostly policy, not technology, holding back widespread adoption of distributed energy resources supported by smart tech.