Senators and Coops Voice Concerns Regarding FERC’s Distributed Energy Resources Proposal
A recent proposal from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would allow third parties to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) and sell electricity on the wholesale electricity market. A group of U.S. Senators wrote a letter to FERC outlining the concerns heard from rural electric cooperatives regarding the potential adverse impact on reliability and prices for consumers if aggregation of DERs is determined by independent third parties and not at the local and state regulatory level.