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The Power Market Fix We've Been Waiting For

By Microgrid Resources Coalition posted 05-01-2018 15:04

  

Mark Ahlstrom, GreenTech Media

Summary

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent two-day technical conference discussing distributed energy resources in wholesale markets stemmed from FERC’s recent adoption of Order 841, which directs regional markets to come up with rules for energy storage to participate in markets, but stops short of supporting other distributed energy resources in markets. 

But did the rich discussion at FERC’s conference miss the best possible solution? Order 841, while outwardly addressing energy storage resources, could actually help create a universal data model for all grid resources. The traditional way of looking at generators and loads is no longer sufficient. We should take advantage of this opportunity.

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