The energy-storage industry won a significant victory when a U.S. appeals court upheld a 2016 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that effectively allows stored power to compete with traditional generation in the wholesale electricity market.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners challenged FERC’s February 2018 order that prohibited states from barring electric-storage resources on their distribution and retail systems to participate in federal markets. “We find no foul here, so we deny the petition,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said in its July 10 ruling.