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Saturday, July 28, 2012

FERC Rules Need to Accommodate the Aggregation of Distributed Electricity Storage

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:13 AM PDT
One of the great opportunities of distributed energy storage (DES) technology—and perhaps critical to its economic viability—is the ability of owners of DES systems to aggregate the electricity stored by tens or hundreds of individual DES systems and to wheel that power to customers outside the owner’s service area. The FERC’s current NOPR will deal in part with rules governing how and at what price owners of DES systems can sell stored electricity to customers in interstate transactions that are subject to FERC jurisdiction.

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