Three Maryland Utilities Told Regulators They Cannot Build the Peak-Shaving Program That Would Exempt Them From PJM's Capacity Backstop
PJM's capacity backstop offers an opt-out only to zones with a peak-shaving program codified in state law, and three Maryland utilities told regulators they cannot build one before the October 21 deadline
Maryland Awarded Its First 440 Megawatts of Storage Capacity Credits, and State Law Confines the Program to Transmission-Connected Projects
Maryland's first energy storage capacity credit awards go to two transmission-connected projects because the Next Generation Energy Act permits nothing else, while the state's commercial behind-the-meter grant has exhausted its budget and federal building-code money sits undisbursed
A Massachusetts Ski Resort Plans 80 MWh of Iron-Sodium Storage to Cut Demand Charges, Its Second-Largest Operating Cost
Inlyte and CutPeak's planned 80 MWh iron-sodium behind-the-meter project at a Massachusetts ski resort, read against the 11 percent commercial storage attach rate
Golden Valley Electric Asks Alaska Regulators to Delete Its Demand Ratchet and Bill Commercial Demand by Load Factor
Golden Valley Electric's pending Alaska rate case would delete its 70 percent demand ratchet and replace flat commercial demand charges with tiers keyed to monthly load factor, changing what a behind-the-meter battery is paid to do
No New York City Building Used the Local Law 97 Storage Deduction in the Law's First Compliance Year
Zero New York City buildings used the Local Law 97 energy storage deduction in the law's first compliance year, while the instruments that were used required no new hardware
Two Local Codes, Two Answers on Whether an Indoor Battery Is Building Equipment or a Land Use
Fairfax County exempts in-building batteries from its large-scale BESS zoning regime by use test while Dickinson, Texas writes storage into its commercial use table, splitting local codes on whether an indoor battery is building equipment or a land use
FERC Denied Rehearing on the New England ROE Cut, and the Refunds Start Arriving This Month
FERC denied rehearing of its 9.57 percent base ROE for New England transmission owners, leaving refunds of roughly $900 million to $1.5 billion running back to October 2011 and lowering the transmission component of the regional demand charge that behind-the-meter storage targets