SPP is closing to setting a date by which interested members of its WEIS market must commit to full RTO membership.

Stakeholders unanimously voted to amend PJM's issue charge addressing the calculation of regulation mileage ratio, asking the RTO for more time to discuss.

Regional energy policy leaders presented their plans and priorities at the Environmental Business Council of New England Energy Leadership Conference.

Renewable developers said SPP's plan to resolve a four-year backlog of GI requests by 2024 sets an example for the other RTOs to follow.

Interconnection queues across the country are bursting with requests from battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid power plants pairing storage with solar or wind. Because of their growing numbers and the differences in their operating characteristics from traditional synchronous generation, NERC issued a reliability guideline in March on the resources’ performance capabilities and how …

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Arizona regulators approved a demand management plan that includes incentives for homeowners who install battery storage with their rooftop solar system.

FERC declined to issue an order in a dispute between a western Colorado electric co-op and an Xcel subsidiary over qualifying facility interconnections.

A new app from the Department of Energy is aimed at cutting the soft costs that now make up about two-thirds of the price of rooftop solar systems.

Community solar developers in New York are facing a very different set of market challenges from the ones they experienced over the last five years.

Solar has overtaken wind in the interconnection queues of MISO and SPP as declining PV costs make solar attractive even in wind belt states.