The Department of Energy will collaborate with PJM to develop standards aimed at improving the integration of distributed energy resources onto the grid.

Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee.

The 160th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable focused on solar power as well as the ways in which energy storage can support it on the grid.

CAISO’s 2019 revenue requirement will be less than this year’s, despite hiring and costs associated with its planned new role as reliability coordinator for most of the West.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) unanimously approved a mandate requiring new homes in the Golden State to include rooftop solar.

Connecticut’s General Assembly passed a bill that doubles the renewable portfolio standard to 40% by 2030 while also revoking net metering guarantees.

State regulators proved reluctant to be pinned down on predictions about the future of the grid at the annual meeting of the Organization of MISO States.

Representatives of MISO sectors gathered to discuss how a greater number of distributed energy resources could interact with the grid.

ISO-NE expects growing energy efficiency and behind-the-meter solar generation to more than cancel out load growth over the next 10 years.

U.S. grid operators, the ISOs and RTOs across the country, were well prepared for the first continent-wide total solar eclipse in nearly a century.