Wholesale electricity markets have a new competitor. With last week’s announcement of Order No. 2222, FERC has approved distributed energy resources (DER) aggregators to compete in regional wholesale electricity markets.

DERs are small-scale power generation or storage technologies (typically from 1 kW to 10,000 kW). These can be located on an electric utility’s distribution system, a subsystem of the utility’s distribution system or behind a customer meter. DERs may include electric storage, intermittent generation, distributed generation, demand response, energy efficiency, thermal storage or electric vehicles and their charging equipment.

The next step is for regional grid operators to revise tariffs to establish DERs as a category of market participant.

Read More:

• https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/E-1-facts.pdf
• https://www.naturalgasintel.com/ferc-opens-wholesale-electricity-markets-to-distributed-resources-boosting-competition-expanding-technology-options/
• https://sepapower.org/resource/2019-utility-demand-response-market-snapshot/