NYISO gave the Installed Capacity and Market Issues Working Groups further revisions to its proposed rules for distributed energy resource aggregations.

MISO featured the founder of an energy management software company for its first task force of the year on distributed energy resources.

A panel of energy experts took ISO-NE’s capacity market to task, lambasting the region’s Forward Capacity Market and offering ideas about how to improve it.

FERC approved NYISO’s request for up to 3 more years to implement tariff revisions that will allow DERs in aggregations to provide all their ancillary services.

A new NERC study rejects the idea that utilities can safely leave some DER out of interconnection studies without affecting the accuracy of their models.

ISO-NE is finalizing changes to its economic study process as it works through the NEPOOL stakeholder gauntlet.

The MIC overwhelmingly adopted an issue charge to explore whether PJM should account for local issues that may impact the net cost of new entry in a region.

In a new report, NERC said that the bulk power system is in the middle of a major transformation because of the spread of distributed energy resources.

ERCOT has approved a pilot project where Texas energy providers can aggregate their customers’ small DERs and sell the extra energy back to the grid.

Stakeholders responded negatively NYISO’s proposal for a 10-kW minimum capability requirement for individual DERs to qualify for participation in aggregation.