FERC Order 841

Required RTOs and ISOs to revise their tariffs to establish market rules that facilitate the participation of electric storage resources in the capacity, energy, and ancillary service markets.

FERC Order 745

Ensured that cost-effective demand response resources in an RTO or ISO’s territory must be compensated at the locational marginal price.

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.

New Mexico’s Renewable Energy Transmission Authority Act

Directed the state’s Renewable Energy Transmission Authority to participate in regional transmission forums and grants it the power of eminent domain to acquire property of rights of way for public use if needed to regional transmission projects.

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."