The New York PSC modified its VDER compensation policy and authorized $43 million in state funding for solar and community distributed generation projects.

The solar power industry won a victory against paperwork as FERC issued an order exempting residential aggregators from federal filing requirements.

NYISO’s Business Issues Committee recommended the Management Committee approve Tariff revisions on a new market design for distributed energy resources.

MISO’s annual report on future trends includes suggestions for market changes that could ease the transition to a still hard-to-pin-down future fleet.

MISO will kick off discussions on distributed energy resources policy after completing stakeholder workshops on integrating DER into its system.

New York officials, utilities and solar advocates are trading comments through the PSC on what constitutes appropriate compensation for DER capacity value.

The Department of Energy will collaborate with PJM to develop standards aimed at improving the integration of distributed energy resources onto the grid.

MISO may have to contend with security concerns and the phaseout of the vertically integrated utility model as it strives to manage a grid with more DERs.

Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee.

Speakers at NERC’s biennial Reliability Leadership Summit talked about the impact of the new U.S. resource mix and distributed generation on the grid.