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FERC's rejection of PJM's IRAS proposal requires a second glance.
FERC issued a decision on PJM’s Interim Resource Adequacy Service proposal on October 9th, 2026. Even though FERC accepted PJM’s large load definition of 50 MW and above and the large load registry idea, FERC rejected PJM’s IRAS filing on j...
RR703 clears the mechanical path for DR in SPP — now the work shifts to regulators.
What is RR703
Revision Request 703 (”RR703”) is SPP’s version of demand response reforms. In a nutshell, RR703 does two things: it moves the penalties for capacity deficiencies from a pre-season forecast to a post-season, actual, weather...
FERC should state clearly that demand response and distributed energy resources are part of the alternative transmission technologies.
FERC issued a decision on September 29th, 2026, on PJM’s Reliability Backstop Procurement (RBP) Docket Nos. ER26-3380-000, EL26-108-000. Overall, this decision is good for the DR and DER providers who are in the Bring Your Own New Capacity...
Flexible Interconnections: A Guide to Faster Grid Integration
As battery energy storage systems (BESS) and distributed energy resources (DERs) proliferate across the grid, developers face a persistent bottleneck: lengthy interconnection studies and costly infrastructure upgrades. Flexible interconnect...
What happened to Storage As a Transmission Asset (SATA)?
We need the regional transmission organizations to bring back the Storage As a Transmission Asset (SATA) discussion to the stakeholder committees and file a SATA tariff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. While electric storage can...
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Energy market expert, spent 15 years at MISO, advocates for energy aggregators and distributed energy resources such as energy storage, distributed solar and storage, textbook co-author - https://a.co/d/3jV4bWY, transmission expert. Rakon Energy ®
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