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ENGIE North America and clean energy trade groups are supporting an ISO New England proposal to require distributed energy resources to pass through state interconnection review instead of the grid operator’s process.
The proposal would address an “acute barrier” to market participation that has hurt DER developers in New England, stymied progress toward state policy goals for distributed resource development, and created unnecessary burdens for ISO-NE, Advanced Energy Economy said in comments filed Wednesday at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Separately, ISO-NE on Wednesday urged FERC to respond to a complaint over how the grid operator accounts for the capacity value of generating resources, saying the commission’s guidance is needed because ISO-NE has just started a stakeholder process to…