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.
June 05, 2017
Through its Complaint, ESA requests that the Commission direct PJM to comply with the filing requirements of the Federal Power Act by submitting revisions to the Tariff or Operating Agreement [...]Read More
April 26, 2017
ESA filed a motion to intervene and comments on MISO’s compliance filing from April 3, 2017. In the motion, ESA notes that the filing does not meet the requirements set [...]Read More
April 13, 2017
ESA filed comments with FERC, noting general support for the Commission’s proposed rule as it may better enable electric storage resources to participate in wholesale markets. Reducing backlogged interconnection queues [...]Read More
April 13, 2017
ESA joined with several other energy organizations to file comments on FERC’s The time is ripe for the Commission to make certain regulatory and policy changes to FERC’s December 15, [...]Read More
February 14, 2017
ESA submitted Comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that was issued by FERC on November 17, 2016. ESA is appreciative that FERC continues to recognize the importance [...]Read More
January 24, 2017
ESA submitted comments in response to the notice of proposed rule issued on November 17, 2016. While ESA does not oppose the requirement of primary frequency (“PFR”) response capability as [...]Read More
December 15, 2016
ESA comments that feasible pathways exist for enabling electric storage to provide multiple services while respecting the institutional design of organized wholesale markets. Within the scope of the instant docket, [...]Read More
November 04, 2016
The most concerning changes that NYISO is proposing in the DER Roadmap involves the calculation of Capacity value for DER. The Roadmap would likely reduce the earnings potential of limited-duration [...]Read More
November 04, 2016
In response to the latest update on the initiative at the September 29 Market Issues Working Group meeting, ESA has comments on several elements of the plans for Energy Storage [...]Read More