November 30, 2024

Energy Storage

NERC Standards Committee Briefs: April 17, 2019
The NERC Standards Committee unanimously approved the opening of a 45-day comment period on revised inverter rules in reliability standard PRC-024.
FERC Asks RTOs for more Details on Storage Rules
FERC issued deficiency letters to all six jurisdictional RTOs and ISOs over their proposed energy storage rules, pressing for definitions, tariff citations and other details.
Mich. Energy Storage Idea Poses New Life for Old Mines
Old and new will interconnect if Michigan Tech can pull off an energy storage concept that pairs the state’s abandoned mines with pumped storage.
DOE Lab to Join PJM DER Integration Effort
The Department of Energy will collaborate with PJM to develop standards aimed at improving the integration of distributed energy resources onto the grid.
More Info Needed on MISO Storage Participation Plan
MISO must flesh out more details around its already lengthy proposal for allowing energy storage resources to participate in its markets, FERC said.
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: March 27, 2019
ERCOT's Technical Advisory Committee tabled a request to lower the grid operator’s peaker net margin threshold pending further direction from the Texas PUC.
MISO Planning Committee to Reconsider Non-TO Storage as Tx
MISO's Steering Committee instructed the Planning Advisory Committee to revisit non-transmission owners operating storage-as-transmission assets.
DOE’s Walker Sees Big Cuts in Storage Costs
Assistant Energy Secretary Bruce Walker said the Department of Energy is planning a megawatt-scale “Storage Launchpad” that he predicted will cut the cost of energy storage dramatically.
Green ‘Moon Shot’ not Possible, Physicist Tells NERC Forum
Physicist Mark P. Mills gave the NERC Leadership Summit a blistering & entertaining critique, saying a rapid shift from hydrocarbons is delusional.
MISO Floats Draft Storage-as-Tx Rules
MISO released draft Tariff language that would allow energy storage resources to compete for projects in the RTO’s annual Transmission Expansion Plan.

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