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
El Paso Electric Asked New Mexico to Approve a Large-Load Rate Class With No Qualifying Customer
El Paso Electric's New Mexico rate case proposes a large-load class with no qualifying customer and phases the increase in two steps, the second landing after the summer months that set commercial demand ratchets
Commerce Set a December 4 Polysilicon Tariff as Growatt Raised C&I Storage Cabinet Prices for October 8
Section 232 set a December 4 polysilicon tariff with weekly anti-stockpiling import caps while Growatt raised C&I storage cabinet prices for October 8 on input costs, producing two cost increases with different documentation
Distributed Storage Costs Eight Times More to Operate Than Utility-Scale as UK Installer Data Shows Attach Rates Falling to 12.5 Percent
Operating cost and capital approval, not hardware price, emerge as the binding constraints on commercial storage in two September datasets
Maine Asks FERC to End the 0.5 Percent RTO Incentive After Four States Made Grid Membership Mandatory
Maine's FERC complaint against the 0.5 percent RTO participation ROE adder, and what mandatory-membership laws in four states do to a federal incentive built to reward a voluntary choice
Massachusetts Paid $56 per Kilowatt-Hour for One Storage Grant and $833 for Another in the Same Round
Massachusetts AMP grant round pays $56 per kilowatt-hour for a long-duration resort battery and $833 for a school battery, and funds first-responder training as a separate track
California's Largest Convention Hotel Signed 20 Years of Gas Cogeneration for 94 Percent of Its Load, With a Claimed 40 Percent Tax Credit
Unison Energy's 3 MW gas cogeneration microgrid at Chula Vista's Gaylord Pacific, sold on a 20-year energy-as-a-service contract with a claimed 40 percent tax credit, alongside Amazon's genset commitment to Generac and the state storage programs that have not yet opened