AEE Makes Wholesale Markets Make Sense

Integrating Distributed Energy Resources into Wholesale Markets Saves Customers Money

Distributed energy resources (DERs) support a cleaner, more resilient, and cost effective grid. 

DERs support the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market with valuable services by enhancing competition, mitigating price spikes, and responding to wholesale price signals. For more information, download the report!

Opening the Door to DERs 

"Opening the Door to DERs" summarizes Order No. 2222’s key findings and determinations, catalogues the specific compliance requirements that RTOs/ISOs must satisfy, and highlights compliance details that will ultimately determine the extent to which wholesale markets are opened to participation by aggregated DERs.

FERC Order No. 2222: Opening the Door to DERs in Wholesale Markets

In its landmark Order No. 2222, FERC requires all Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) to remove barriers to wholesale market participation by aggregated distributed energy resources (DERs). This means that DERs – including distributed solar, energy storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, demand response, and more – will be able to bid into wholesale energy, ancillary services, and capacity markets according to their technical capabilities.

This AEE webinar breaks down FERC’s Order and examines the questions that DER developers, utilities, and grid operators have to grapple with as they put Order No. 2222 into practice.

Are Renewables+Storage ‘Hybrids’ the Future of Power Generation?

Across the U.S., developers are seizing the opportunity to combine advanced generation technologies like solar and wind with energy storage into a single “hybrid” power plant. Hybrids have the potential to bring many benefits to consumers and our power system, including increased efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. 

In this webinar, our panel of grid operators, project developers, and hybrid power plant experts discussed the changing resource landscape, ongoing regulatory efforts to incorporate hybrid resources, and what is still needed to allow hybrids to reach their full market potential.