VPP (Virtual Power Plants), Microgrid and BESS (Battery Energy Storage System)
How Are Units in a VPP Selected to Provide Ancillary Services?
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https://www.next-kraftwerke.com/energy-blog/algorithm-vpp-ancillary-services
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How Swell represents the value of its VPP solutions
What is FERC Order 841 and why is it considered so important?
https://www.energy-storage.news
Published: 13 Jul 2020
By:
Andy Colthorpe (Editor)
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Order 841 states that barriers to distributed and behind-the-meter energy storage participating in wholesale electricity markets should be removed.
FERC passed the bipartisan rules in February 2018 after a lengthy process that began with it being tabled in 2016, ordering regional transmission operators (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) to reconfigure wholesale markets to accommodate storage resources to allow them to provide capacity, energy and ancillary services.
The United States Court of Appeal in the District of Columbia (DC) ruled last week to deny petitioning from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) as well as the American Public Power Association and others, to prevent the passing of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ruling FERC Order 841.
After the court made its decision on 10 July, FERC chairman Neil Chatterjee said in a statement the net day that he thought “FERC’s Order 841 will be seen as the single most important act we could take to ensure a smooth transition to a new clean energy future”.
Participation of DERs in the Wholesale Market: Regulatory Watershed
Although the timeline for full implementation of all the concepts and mandates of FERC Orders 841 and 2222 is uncertain (but probably measured in years), the energy environment that will emerge will be vastly more complex and interactive than the current market.
Energy professionals who witnessed the transition from old-style regulated markets to deregulated LMP markets should expect an even more transformative change, the effects of which will be long lasting and unpredictable.
By John Bonnin, “Participation of DERs in the Wholesale Market: Regulatory Watershed”, April 12, 2021 (https://blog.auto-grid.com/participation-of-ders-in-the-wholesale-market-regulatory-watershed/).
