FERC clarified its June orders on CAISO and NYISO Order 2222 compliance filings while rejecting rehearing requests by consumer and environmental groups.

ERCOT has approved a pilot project where Texas energy providers can aggregate their customers’ small DERs and sell the extra energy back to the grid.

Stakeholders responded negatively NYISO’s proposal for a 10-kW minimum capability requirement for individual DERs to qualify for participation in aggregation.

NYISO shared a proposal to set a 10-kW minimum capability requirement for individual distributed energy resources participating in aggregations.

NYISO filed a request with FERC for a 90-day extension of the Aug. 16 compliance deadline for Order 2222 and a separate request regarding operating reserves.

After stakeholder criticisms, MISO is insisting before FERC that it’s appropriate to take until 2030 to open its markets to aggregators of DERs.

PG&E and Tesla have asked owners of Powerwall batteries to be part of an aggregated storage program to help California meet its reliability challenges.

Order 2222 filings have been contentious in every region, including New England.

MISO is seeking final stakeholder opinions before it makes an April filing to comply with FERC’s directive that RTOs open wholesale markets to DER aggregations.

MISO says that aggregations of distributed energy resources lining up for its wholesale markets must wait until the end of the decade before gaining entry.