Assembly Bill 2514 introduced California to energy storage in a big way. The bill has directed the three Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) to procure and deploy 1.325 GW of diverse energy storage technologies by the year 2020.
In the state of Texas, Oncor has indicated that they are interested in procuring 5 GW of energy storage to deploy in their service territory and has commissioned a whitepaper to explore ideas that maximize the system and societal benefits of storage to the distribution system and their customers.
Meanwhile, ComEd debates policy with PJM and FERC on the classification of energy storage as “generation, transmission or distribution” and how storage providers might pay their share of distribution system costs. During this panel, join the executives from the California IOUs, Oncor and ComEd and to discuss the policies, planning models and economic impacts for third party and utility-owned energy storage deployments.