Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
ERCOT
ERCOT stakeholders advanced a protocol change that provides longer-duration ancillary services and state-of-charge parameters, among several other voting items, during their last TAC meeting.
CAISO
The duck curve has landed in New England, not the sunniest of places, but it and California are by no means the only grids that will be greatly affected, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.
Convergent Energy and Power
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has approved new grid modernization rules the agency says will make the process of launching new distributed sources easier and faster.
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has filed a major energy bill that her administration says would save ratepayers $10 billion over the next decade.
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PJM’s Market Implementation Committee discussed a proposal to revise its governing documents to allow DR resources to participate in the regulation market when there may be energy injected at the customer’s point of interconnection
IESO
IESO is changing how it projects renewable generation output and its accounting for imports and planned loads in the forecasts it uses to manage generator and transmission outages.
ISO-NE
ISO-NE experienced record-low demand on Easter Sunday because of mild temperatures and high behind-the-meter solar output, making 2025 the fourth consecutive year ISO-NE has set a low-load record.
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Stakeholders urged FERC to consider reliability and consumer costs when weighing approaches to co-located large loads.
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MISO announced it will scrap its plan to use an existing DR participation category to get aggregators of DERs participating on a limited basis a few years ahead of a full Order 2222 rollout in 2030.
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A data center campus planned in western Pennsylvania would include up to 4.5 GW of on-site gas-fired generation and be the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., a group of developers announced.
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