FERC was within its rights to approve PJM’s controversial capacity market MOPR rule changes in 2011, a federal appeals court ruled.

FERC clarified Order 784, its 2013 rule opening the ancillary services markets to more competition from energy storage.

PJM members endorsed rules describing when economic demand response is eligible for compensation, over the objections of some demand response providers, who said they are unfair.

A proposed manual change on compensation for demand response prompted a protest from curtailment service provider Icetec Energy Services.

News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in PJM's footprint. This week, we highlight the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Environmental Protection Agency.

PJM began offering new ways to download energy price data from the PJM website with the introduction of a “data miner” application.

The volume and magnitude of changes PJM is attempting to impose on demand response raise the question of whether the high-flying sector is still a growth business or one in retreat.

PJM generators told FERC that it should go beyond PJM’s qualification rules for demand response providers — with some proposing that planned DR resources be banned from the capacity market.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff signaled Wednesday that the commission may require PJM to change rules requiring demand response providers to provide “sell offer plans” in order to participate in capacity auctions.

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.