Clean Energy Grid Advocates Applaud FERC Demand Response Order

Clean energy supporters are applauding federal regulators’ recent decision barring states from blocking third-party demand response (DR) aggregators from competing against utility DR programs in wholesale energy markets, saying it will create more options for DR that they say can help decarbonize the grid and provide other clean energy benefits. “It makes a lot more sense” to adopt DR than to build power plants “that are only used a few times a year,” says Tom Rutigliano, senior advocate at the...