FERC accepted a second round of changes from CAISO's stakeholder initiative on hybrid resources, including a contested exemption for renewables plus storage.

PJM has proposed changes to a stakeholder-endorsed proposed on solar-battery hybrid resources after consulting with FERC staff.

FERC on Tuesday approved MISO’s two-part plan to get hybrid resources accredited for participation in the RTO’s capacity auctions.

Interconnection queues across the country are bursting with requests from battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid power plants pairing storage with solar or wind. Because of their growing numbers and the differences in their operating characteristics from traditional synchronous generation, NERC issued a reliability guideline in March on the resources’ performance capabilities and how …

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MISO is seeking a near-term pathway for hybrid resources in its markets while it works on a permanent participation model for storage-renewable combinations.

The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association hosted a webinar on hybrid resources as part of its series on the role of energy storage in decarbonization.

NYISO kicked off an effort to create a market participation model for hybrid storage aggregation resources.

NERC said grid planners must prepare for the coming surge in battery storage, which is expected to double to 4 GW by 2023.

FERC approved a CAISO plan meant to allow co-located resources to connect to the grid more quickly and seamlessly in the coming months.

The CAISO board praised the work of retiring colleague David Olsen and adopted the second phase of its hybrid resource plan.