FERC Issues Landmark Order on Distributed Energy Resources

Posted on: September 22, 2020 By: Blake Urban, Stephen Hug, Catherine McCarthy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) issued a landmark final rule, Order No. 2222 , at its September 17, 2020 open meeting that aims to remove barriers for distributed energy resources (“DER”) to participate in wholesale markets regulated by FERC through aggregators. As defined by FERC, DER is “any resource located on the distribution system, any subsystem thereof or behind a customer meter.” [1] DER, thus, refers to resources that provide electricity near the point of use as opposed to centralized generation sources from utility-scale power plants that are often...
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FERC Redefines QF Eligibility Requirements

Posted on: September 8, 2020 By: Stephen Hug, Catherine McCarthy, Boris Shkuta
On September 1, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) issued an order breaking with decades of precedent regarding how it will determine whether a renewable resource is eligible for certification as a qualifying small power production facility (“QF”) pursuant to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, as amended (“PURPA”). [1] The result of the Commission’s order is that renewable resources will no longer have the ability to qualify for QF status by voluntarily limiting their output to comply with the 80 MW cap on small power production facilities...
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