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...