Public Utilities

NY Energy Storage Target

NY DPS issued an Energy Storage Roadmap calling for an energy storage goal of 1.5 GW by 2025. In January 2018, the Public Service Commission issued an Order establishing a 2030 target of 3,000 MW.

MISO Multi-Value Project lines

MISO undertook efforts to coordinate states to build a series of Multi-Value Project (MVP) lines designed to improve grid reliability and transport wind energy throughout the region.

Texas’ Competitive Renewable Energy Zones

The Texas Public Utility Commission is responsible for designating “competitive renewable energy zones” and “develop[ing] a plan to construct transmission capacity [for] electric output from renewable energy technologies” in those zones."

Energy Policy Act §216(i)

Congress granted consent for three or more contiguous States to enter into an interstate compact, subject to approval by Congress, which would establish a regional transmission siting agencies.

Con Edison’s Commercial Battery Storage Project

A new ownership model whereby the utility sites batteries at customer sites which it is free to draw on during peak periods, but which the customer may utilize during non-peak period.

Minnesota’s Community Solar Garden program

Allows multiple customers to engage with a common, utility- or non-utility owned solar system up to 1 MW.