Advanced Energy United Reports

This report outlines multiple use cases, each illustrating the benefits Order 2222 can unlock and how aggregated DER participation in wholesale markets can benefit everyone.

The existing capacity market constructs in PJM, ISO-NE, and NYISO do not account for state commitments and customer preferences for renewable or no-carbon resources, or the declining costs of advanced energy technologies. Indeed, existing capacity market rules can prevent or hamper clean energy-producing resources from clearing in the capacity market and counting toward resource adequacy needs. The result is a problematic and increasingly costly trend of divorcing the procurement of capacity to address resource adequacy needs from the procurement of clean energy needed to meet state and consumer demands. As clean energy demands continue to grow, this status quo will not be sustainable.

A new report from the Advanced Energy Buyers Group, a business-led coalition of large energy users facilitated by AEE, explains why organized competitive wholesale markets operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) are foundational to many of the strategies that large energy buyers rely on to increase their use of advanced energy and meet their sustainability targets.