The California Independent System Operator Corp. (ISO) Board of Governors approved rules and processes that for the first time enable aggregated distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar to participate in the wholesale energy market.

These rules will set a pathway for smaller resources to be bundled together by utilities or third parties so that they collectively meet the half-megawatt minimum requirement for participating in the energy market.

The proposal approved by the board also outlines how distributed energy resources aggregations would be metered, and allows service providers to act as scheduling coordinators to interact with the ISO through a single point of contact.

Supporting tariff language will be developed and submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its approval later this year.

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Board memo outlining proposal

CAISO distributed energy resources initiative webpage

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