FERC asked MISO to remove or defend its requirement that distribution utilities and load-serving entities report real-time grid injections and withdrawals to be compliant with Order 841.

FERC accepted NYISO’s second attempt to comply with Order 841, which requires RTOs and ISOs to remove market barriers for energy storage resources.

An agricultural hub in Iowa is the site of a battery storage project that the Energy Department thinks could become a template for other towns.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee approved a standard contract term for emergency response service and some energy storage to use internal sensors.

ISO-NE presented the Planning Advisory Committee with revised study scenarios and threshold prices for the 2020 Economic Study requested by National Grid.

RTOs will need uniform interconnection processes if hybrid and co-located resources are to provide flexible, cost-effective service, panelists in a FERC conference said.

The CAISO Board of Governors adopted the first of two proposals intended to allow co-located and hybrid resources to connect to the grid more seamlessly.

The most abundant element in the universe could reduce GHGs and solve the problem of storing wind and solar energy if production costs comes down.

PJM, CAISO and SPP took a step closer to the full implementation of Order 841 with FERC’s partial acceptance of their Tariff revisions.

California is moving to adopt microgrids to store wind and solar energy and to provide electricity during public safety power shutoffs in wildfire season.