News Stories
Sponsored by Earth Etch. Regulatory insight and compliance solutions for today’s energy markets.
Consultant E3 Submitted Final DER Report With ICC
Illinois receives final report on Value of DER. In mid-January, Illinois Commerce Commission consultant E3 submitted a final report as part of a process to determine appropriate compensation levels for distributed energy resources (DER).
Among other things, the report: (1) recommends base rate compensation of $300/kW for net-metered solar at Ameren and ComEd and $250/kW of other installed solar; (2) recommends the annual additive services compensation for standalone storage of $32/kW at Ameren and $25/kW at ComEd; (3) found that value “depends strongly on aligning DER output with hours of stress on individual feeders… [and] dispatchable DERs are the resources best suited to relieve it,” but noted that “compensation for these resources should be tied to performance to guarantee realization of potential value”; (4) found that most of the value of DG to the state “could be achieved by cheaper utility scale resources, and existing compensation for DG creates affordability concerns for non-participants”; and (5) found that some suggested DER benefits, such as resilience, flexibility, reduced methane leakage, and voltage regulation/optimization, cannot “be quantified with sufficient certainty today to consider them for compensation.”
Final Report (02/2025)
ICC Workshop Series Into Investigation Into DER
