Infocast’s inaugural Storage East summit drew policymakers, grid operators, utilities and companies looking to break into energy storage.

The 1,000 or so attendees at CAISO’s Stakeholder Symposium got a glimpse of what the future could hold during the event’s 10th anniversary.

PJM staff outlined 10 reforms included in the FERC energy storage Order 845, six for which the RTO has already drafted Tariff changes.

MISO offered its energy storage participation proposal for final stakeholder inspection while promising to introduce more new market rules in the future.

MISO said its grid can currently sustain 20% renewable penetration without damaging frequency response.

The 33rd Annual GCPA Fall Conference attracted more than 640 registered attendees to Austin, Texas, for discussions on the issues facing the ERCOT market.

California may be able to meet its carbon goal by 2045, but it’s going to be more difficult and more expensive without a Western RTO, advocates contend.

NERC CEO Jim Robb said he is pushing for new reliability standards to address fuel assurance concerns and settings for inverters on solar and storage.

MISO floated a relatively simple straw proposal for treating energy storage as a reliability asset in its annual transmission plan.

FERC rejected a request by developers of a proposed pumped storage project for cost-based rate recovery as a transmission asset in CAISO.