Utility Dive detailed the future of DER advancements in three key areas: wholesale markets, distribution systems, and new voices. The article quoting Caitlin Marquis' and pulling key findings from United's report on FERC Order 2222.

To meet federal and state electrification and decarbonization policies, 2023 will see major advances for DER aggregations in wholesale markets and at the distribution system level, utility representatives, DER advocates and policy analysts agreed. And 2023 may also see new community and consumer stakeholders take a more central role in driving growth, some experts said.

Regional transmission organizations and independent system operators were ordered in September 2020 “to remove barriers to the participation of DER in the capacity, energy and ancillary service markets,” by FERC Order 2222.

Rules for wholesale market integration should evolve with DER technologies’ scale and types of services, a January 2022 report by GridLab and Advanced Energy United (formerly known as Advanced Energy Economy) analysts said. Key issues will be interconnection procedures, cost and benefit assessments, and management and coordination of dual participation in wholesale and retail markets, the report said.

Compliance filings from system operators on implementing Order 2222 were due July 19, 2021, but only the California ISO and the New York ISO submitted them, said United's Managing Director Caitlin Marquis. FERC’s ruling on extension requests from PJM, ISO-New England, the Midcontinent ISO and Southwest Power Pool may come in 2023, she added.

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