On February 15, 2018, FERC issued a notice that staff will hold a technical conference on April 10-11, 2018 to discuss the participation of distributed energy resources (“DER”) in markets operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators. As FERC stated in the notice, the two-day conference will host several panels on two broad DER-related agendas: first, to continue considering the DER-related reforms initially proposed in the rulemaking culminating in the concurrently-issued Order No. 841 on electric storage participation in organized markets; and second, to broadly explore issues related to the potential effects of DERs on the bulk power system.
Additional details will be provided in a supplemental notice to be issued closer to the conference date. The deadline to submit a nomination form to participate in the conference as a panelist is March 15, 2018. Those interested in attending in person are encouraged to register online by April 3, 2018.
A copy of FERC’s notice, and a description of the panels to be convened during the conference, can be found here.