DC Circuit grills NARUC, FERC on whether Order 841 will harm state ability to regulate distribution

Utility Dive: Storage advocates see Order 841 as a crucial tool to help accelerate energy storage deployment across regulated wholesale markets. But utilities and states in their petition to the court argued FERC overstepped its authority in issuing this rule by potentially hindering state regulatory authority.

The fundamental question for the judges is whether the order's instructions to regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs), which will govern the way storage systems are able to participate in the wholesale market, messes with a state's ability to safely govern the reliability of its distribution system.

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