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What a cluster! NYISO updates its interconnection process to study groups of requests

NYISO’s new study process is conducted in two phases to evaluate a large group of interconnection requests collectively rather than individually, saving time and lightening the load for the NYISO, utilities, and energy developers.

CPower Energy becomes first to register for premiere U.S. wholesale DER integration program

CPower is the first to register to bid virtual power plants into NYISO’s new DER and Aggregation Participation Model.

FERC’s data request to NYISO on Order 2222 offers clues for MISO’s compliance filing

These FERC letters offer clues for FERC’s attention and focus on the aggregation of distributed energy resources and their role in the energy market construct.

Con Edison, partner select control platform for New York energy storage pilot

US utility Con Edison and infrastructure company GI Energy have selected a software developed by Smarter Grid Solutions for the control of a 1MW/IMWh battery energy storage project. Con Edison and GI Energy have plans to deploy three more 1MW/1MWh lithium-ion batteries across New York as part of their pilot project. The two will use Smarter Grid Solutions’ ANM Strata

Hope for storage developers as the first interregional transmission project approaches approval

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) Board expects to approve a first interregional Market Efficiency Project (MEP) at its June 2020 meeting. Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) Board already approved this project last December. This market efficiency project is a first for both MISO and PJM from a joint and common market perspective. MISO’s Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) studied this project and

Why the time is right for FERC to issue a NOPR on peaking power plants

With the majority of the country’s workforce at home and most businesses and industries either operating at reduced capacity or temporarily shut down, COVID-19 has reduced electric demand across the board. This unprecedented drop in electricity consumption is reshaping the way the power system operates and forcing grid operators to revise forecasts and expectations for grid needs. One of the

Three steps to take for a VDER to participate in NYISO’s capacity and ancillary services market

NYISO’s dual market participation model allows both retail and wholesale market participation. To encourage DER participation towards meeting N.Y. clean e…

Reforming retail power market regulation could enable more clean energy, cost savings

The clean energy transition will require much of the nation’s generation capital stock to turn over in coming years. That investment requires entities who are…

Three reasons why dual participation market model at NYISO is best for energy storage

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) received FERC approval for its dual participation model. Dual participation refers to resources that participate in…

Offshore

The aim is to accelerate the wind power industry’s drive for competitive renewable …

Onshore

Wind and solar energy are growing rapidly in the U.S. As these energy sources become a bigger part of the electricity mix, their growth raises new questions: Ho…

Community Solar

How do we compensate those who add clean electricity to our shared power grid? This fundamental question has affected the rate at which the U.S. has adopted, de…

Blogs

Sustainable CUNY released a Resilient Solar Roadmap for NYC through its NYSolar Smart DG Hub in an effort to increase the deployment of resilient sola…

Solar

Net metering is unfair and is dangerous for the long term health of utilities, at least according to Raymond Wuslich, when he spoke at the 2015 Renewable Energy…

Energy Efficiency

Energy storage announcements this week show that the new technology is continuing to make gains from coast to coast as companies work to cuts electricity costs …