The Electric Power Research Institute will lead an educational session on smart inverters March 31 as the Planning Committee begins work on developing standards for the devices.

Company briefs on some of the companies doing business in PJM: PPL, FirstEnergy and Pepco, as well as news from the Electric Power Research Institute.

Advanced energy storage is ready to move beyond pilot projects and into day-to-day operations. But it will take rule changes and cost reductions for the technologies to reach their potential.