WECC should zero in on issues specific to the Western system when it sets near-term priorities for 2021 and 2022, stakeholders said at a workshop.

The growth of DER means the MISO grid will become increasingly fraught with planning challenges that require target responses, stakeholders heard.

About 200 people attended the Energy Storage Association's annual Policy Forum at the National Press Club in D.C.

State regulators endorsed IEEE’s updated standard on the interconnection and interoperability of DERs at their annual winter policy meeting in D.C.

FERC approved NYISO’s proposal to allow aggregations of distributed energy resources to participate in its markets.

The California PUC approved $830 million in incentives for self-generation with the goal of benefiting disadvantaged customers who live in fire-prone areas.

DERs such as rooftop solar panels and batteries may pose a higher risk for grid stability than previously thought, the chief engineer for SDG&E warned.

MISO spent much of 2019 preparing for a massive shift to renewable resources — and 2020 will herald much the same, RTO executives say.

“Significant and rapid change” will cause challenges with resource adequacy, but utilities can turn the evolving resource mix to their advantage.

An overflow crowd of more than 200 people attended Raab Associates’ 164th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable in Boston.