on the blog
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For years, large companies in California have been calling for expansion of Direct Access (DA), California’s limited retail choice program for commercial and industrial customers. Retail choice allows customers to shop around, rather than relying on their local electric utility. It also allows large customers to meet sustainability commitments by procuring more renewable energy than the utility provides. Such corporate purchases have driven development of renewable energy in markets that allow retail competition, and for that reason AEE and the Advanced Energy Buyers Group have jointly supported the expansion of DA in California. That expansion could be coming, if recommendations contained in a California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) report on extending DA to all nonresidential customers are acted upon by the California Legislature. But the expansion is more likely to happen – and happen faster – if some misplaced worries in the CPUC report were put to rest. Continue reading on the blog. >
AEE Webinars
Recorded on Thursday, November 12
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In its landmark Order No. 2222, FERC requires all Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) to remove barriers to wholesale market participation by aggregated distributed energy resources (DERs). This means that DERs – including distributed solar, energy storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, demand response, and more – will be able to bid into wholesale energy, ancillary services, and capacity markets according to their technical capabilities. While holding enormous potential for DER providers and aggregators to enter new markets with new business models, Order No. 2222 sets out numerous compliance requirements, which the RTOs/ISOs will have to decide how to meet, subject to FERC approval. The results of that process will ultimately determine the scale of this market opportunity for advanced energy businesses. This AEE webinar breaks down FERC’s Order and examine the questions that DER developers, utilities, and grid operators will have to grapple with as they put Order No. 2222 into practice.
Panelists
- Jeff Dennis, Managing Director and General Counsel, AEE (moderator)
- Bruce Campbell, Director of Regulatory Affairs, CPower
- Christopher Hargett, Energy Policy & Regulatory Affairs, Consolidated Edison
- Kristin Swenson, Senior Advisor, Market Development, Midcontinent Independent System Operator
Learn all about FERC Order No. 2222 and how this landmark decision can affect your business.
aee in the news
We’re thrilled to share a special Experts Only episode with you. Host Jon Powers had the pleasure of speaking with our own CEO, Nat Kreamer, and one of our managing directors and our general counsel, Jeff Dennis, to discuss Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order No. 2222.
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- Do you want to know more about what FERC does as an organization?
- Do you want a better understanding of what Order No. 2222, which came out in September, will do for the industry and what the market opportunity will be?
- Do you want to know how you can get involved with FERC and take action?
Then, click here to download this episode!
Featured online events
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Learn how dynamic interaction between utility and company leaders is moving the western grid toward 100% clean energy. AEE and Arizona Public Service (APS) have been working together to identify ways to help APS achieve its ambitious goals for clean energy and electrification of the transportation sector. This collaboration has the potential to be replicated to benefit other states and regions as well! In this session, AEE’s Lisa Frantzis, who led the project, will talk with Jeff Guldner, CEO of APS and its parent company, Pinnacle West, about Arizona Clean Energy Future and then broaden the discussion to include corporate leaders from participating companies.
Register here for the second session of our three-part virtual conference.
Tune in to the 100% virtual Texas Energy Summit over five afternoons (Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-18), including networking, 2.5 hours of plenary and breakout session content each day. At 2 p.m. CT, there will be a keynote and/or plenary panel followed by 3-4 breakouts on topics introduced in the plenary. Panelists include TAEBA's Suzanne Bertin and Claire Alford! The Summit organizers focus content on improving air quality and growing the Texas economy through expansion of renewable energy, transportation electrification, industrial innovation, and energy efficiency. For more information and to register, we encourage you to click here!
Join the Energy Storage Assocation after the 2020 elections and learn how the energy storage industry will continue its growth trajectory with newly elected (and re-elected) officials. This timely webinar will review the impact of election outcomes on federal and state legislative and regulatory efforts, laying out objectives for action by the energy storage and clean energy industry. Speakers, including AEE's J.R. Tolbert, will discuss how the storage industry can prepare for 2021 to inform advocacy, policy and legislative proposals in the next Congress and Administration, as well as in states of priority interest. Register for the event here!
