New York DPS Schedules Working Group Meeting On Energy Storage, DER Integration
February 25,2019
On December 13, 2018, the Public Service Commission (Commission) issued the Order Establishing Energy Storage Goal and Deployment Policy (Order) in Case 18-E-0130. Among other actions, the Commission directed the Department of Public Service Staff (Staff) in collaboration with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to convene and prepare a work plan and schedule for a Market Design and Integration Working Group (Working Group).
The Working Group will convene on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. As discussed in the Order, the Working Group shall be comprised of Staff and NYSERDA, with appropriate contributors from the electric Investor Owned Utilities and the New York Independent System Operator.
The opening meeting will specifically address the work plan and schedule that identifies and organizes the requirements to:
• Determine the information and capabilities that the NYISO needs for planning, dispatching, measuring, and compensating each type of wholesale service that a resource can provide;
• Determine the information and capabilities that the utilities need for planning, dispatching, measuring, and compensating each type of service that a resource can provide to the electric distribution system;
• Determine the needs and priorities, both technical and economic, for coordinating DER operations from the perspectives of the NYISO, the utilities, and the DER operators;
• Identify and evaluate alternative approaches for integrating and optimizing the use of DER for both bulk and distribution services;
• Identify and evaluate alternative approaches for determining and allocating the economic costs and benefits of bulk system effects attributable to DER;
• Consider different combinations of roles and responsibilities for the NYISO, the utilities, and DER operators;
• Examine the advantages/disadvantages of the utility having sole responsibility for monitoring, dispatching, billing, and compensating DER;
• Analyze FERC Order 841 and use of DER for bulk system services;
• Establish DER metering, telemetry, and dispatch policies to ensure efficient optimization and coordination of energy storage services for both the bulk and distribution systems;
• Identify and develop approaches for fast-tracking energy storage applications in which use of the resource for both distribution and bulk system services does not require operational coordination;
• Ensure that the existing compensation framework fully and fairly compensates energy storage resources for multiple value streams benefitting the bulk and distribution systems while protecting against double payments for single services; and
• Determine the detailed functionalities, and corresponding operational and management systems, needed to implement the market-coupling framework.