LPDD Recommendation: “States should consider including pumped storage hydro as transmission assets entitled to cost-of-service rate recovery in their transmission planning as an alternative to construction of new transmission lines.”
LPDD Recommendation: “RTOs and ISOs should enact market rules to accommodate the participation of energy storage (including hydro pumped storage) in energy markets, consistent with FERC’s final rule.”
LPDD Recommendation: “RTOs and ISOs should establish new products and reform existing products that would adequately compensate ancillary services such as those provided by hydropower.”