PJM scheduled two meetings in the coming weeks to discuss rules for removing projects from the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

Declining costs and new market rules are opening opportunities for energy storage, but the technology’s operating characteristics are challenging RTOs.

FERC clarified that rehearing requests on Order 845 did not delay its effective date, only the date that compliance filings are due.

SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.

Infocast’s inaugural Storage East summit drew policymakers, grid operators, utilities and companies looking to break into energy storage.

PJM staff outlined 10 reforms included in the FERC energy storage Order 845, six for which the RTO has already drafted Tariff changes.

MISO staff say the RTO is mostly up to speed with a recent FERC order aimed at increasing the transparency of the generator interconnection processes.

MISO’s Energy Storage Task Force will now add to its to-do list storage-related aspects of the recently issued FERC Order 845.

FERC ordered new rules to increase the transparency and timeliness of the generator interconnection process.