By Michael Brooks
FERC is seeking comment on energy storage’s participation in the wholesale energy markets, questioning whether RTOs’ rules are creating barriers for the resource.
Additional news on this topic:
PJM would create rules allowing batteries, flywheels and other advanced energy storage technologies to participate in its capacity market under a problem statement presented to the Markets and Reliability Commission on first reading Thursday.
FERC clarified Order 784, its 2013 rule opening the ancillary services markets to more competition from electric storage.
In a big boost to the energy storage industry, FERC proposed a sweeping order aimed at knocking down market barriers to storage and distributed energy resources.