The Organization of MISO States’ sixth annual survey on amounts of distributed energy resources in MISO tracked a nearly 1 GW rise in residential DERs year over year.

The RTSC approved a whitepaper looking into the effects of distributed energy resources and their aggregations on the bulk power system.

Utilities and customers both benefit when proactive hosting capacity planning is used to get ahead of the rising demand for distributed energy resources, panelists at the RE+ conference in Las Vegas said.

A Wood Mackenzie and CPower report highlights the importance of demand response and distributed energy resources in ensuring grid reliability.

As DERs play a growing role in electric reliability, ensuring their protection from cybersecurity threats has become increasingly vital, the Texas RE heard.

The NYISO Operating Committee reviewed June's operations and approved manuals to support distributed energy resources market implementation.

NYISO has identified a software issue that potentially constitutes a market problem and says it will confidentially investigate the impact.

NYISO defended its call for a 10-kW minimum for DERs participating in aggregations, which regulators and clean energy groups protested in FERC filings.  

States lag on interconnection policies, but the IREC/Vote Solar study does not recognize the work some utilities are doing to streamline the process.