As the U.S. grid incorporates energy storage systems, ESA has worked to educate staff and commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on the role of energy storage in competitive energy markets. Our main priority is that federal regulators remove impediments and reward innovation in open markets for ancillary services, non-organized markets, and other applications for advanced energy storage technologies.
October 16, 2018
ESA, NY-BEST, and other industry members yesterday sent a letter to NYISO CEO Brad Jones requesting immediate and further consideration on the capacity value of energy storage resources. The letter [...]Read More
June 26, 2018
Pursuant to the Notice issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) in the above-referenced docket, the Energy Storage Association (“ESA”) provides the following comments pertaining to [...]Read More
June 05, 2018
Motion to Leave to Answer and Answer of the Energy Storage Association to Requests for Rehearing Pursuant to Rules 212 and 213 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC” or [...]Read More
May 23, 2018
Pursuant to Rule 211 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“Commission” or “FERC”), the American Council on Renewable Energy, American Wind Energy Association, [...]Read More
May 10, 2018
ESA agrees with FERC’s proposed definition of resilience. Flexibility is the fundamental attribute of the electric system that provides both reliability and resilience. Energy storage provides critical flexibility attributes that [...]Read More
December 08, 2017
The Energy Storage Association and Great Plains Institute submitted comments on the final revisions to the Energy Storage Task Force Charter and priorities for the group’s Management Plan. ESA and [...]Read More
November 16, 2017
ESA filed a protest before FERC on PJM’s Proposed Tariff Revisions to Implement Regulation Market Enhancements. In at least two areas, the Proposed Changes fail to adequately specify matters that [...]Read More
November 14, 2017
ESA moved to intervene in the Docket no. EL 17 -8-000 proceeding and submitted the attached comments regarding the complaint filed on October 21, 2016 (“Complaint”), by Indianapolis Power & [...]Read More
November 03, 2017
The Energy Storage Association submitted comments in response to the supplemental notice for comment issued on August 18, 2017, following the notice of proposed rule issued on November 17, 2016 [...]Read More
August 24, 2017
ESA submitted comments to MISO that can be summed up most simply as generally supportive of MISO’s direction but unable to provide a better judgment until more information is available [...]Read More