Renewable, Alternative, and Distributed Energy Resources

     

    Energy

    A New Paradigm for Utilities: Electrification of the Transportation and Heating Sectors

    Ryan Hledik, Ahmad Faruqui, Jürgen Weiss, J. Michael Hagerty, and Long Lam

    The tide has shifted in the electric power industry. Over the past several years, there has been a steady stream of coal plant closures, record-setting low prices for renewables and storage, and increasingly ambitious state and city carbon-reduction goals.

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    Energy

    Preemption, I Think Not: Evaluating California’s Stored Energy Procurement Law against FERC Order 841

    Raymond Richards

    On February 15, 2018, FERC declared existing Regional Transmission Organization/Independent Systems Operator (RTO/ISO)1 market rules governing the inclusion of ESRs2 in the wholesale markets to be “unjust and unreasonable in light of barriers that they present to the participation of electric storage in the RTO/ISO markets, [because they] reduc[e] competition and [fail] to ensure just and reasonable rates.”

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