New York is well on its way to meeting the state’s goal of having 1,500 MW of energy storage by 2025 and 3,000 MW by the end of the decade, and the 'value of distributed energy resources,' or VDER, mechanism gets part of the credit, according to a report released by state utility regulators. The state had deployed or contracted for 706 MW of … [Read more...]
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New York’s ‘VDER’ Alternative Payment Method Helps Spur Energy Storage
April 2, 2020 By Ethan Howland
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The True Value of Distributed Energy Resources? Connecticut Takes a Stab at it
September 16, 2019 By Keefe Borden

Connecticut regulators are working to pin down the true value of distributed energy resources, which some stakeholders say needs to take into account community resiliency. Backers of the technology have long argued that distributed energy projects are not compensated fairly in the US because current mechanisms do not consider all of their … [Read more...]
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