10月21日，联邦能源管理委员会（FERC）通过了一项计划，产业集团电力存储协会（ESA）在一份新闻稿中说，这项计划将“公正的补偿那些为电网提供关键的可靠性服务的以储能为基础的资源”。
Companies such as Tyngsborough’s Beacon Power Corp. .Beacon Power Corp. Latest from The Business Journals LeChase Construction is top local Beacon Power creditorFeds defend Beacon Power loan guaranteesBoston law firm Edwards Wildman is top Beacon Power creditor Follow this company .that promise to help regulate the flow of energy on the electric grid through use of backup power got a boost from a federal agency yesterday when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission .Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Latest from The Business Journals Feds will no longer issue preliminary permits for Hawaii hydropowerDuke Energy, Progress Energy push for quick regulatory decision on mergerN.C. clears Duke Energy to respond to federal merger issues Follow this company .(FERC) approved changes to how those companies are compensated by the utilities that they work with.
Beacon Power (Nasdaq: BCON), which earlier this month was threatened with delisting on the Nasdaq Stock Market .Nasdaq Stock Market Latest from The Business Journals Trailer Bridge taking on waterTrailer Bridge receives SEC delisting noticeTengion gets notice from NASDAQ over low stock price Follow this company .and has hired an advisory group to help line up additional funding for its initial projects, has developed large-scale flywheel technology that would store energy generated by sources such as wind and solar projects and then release it into the grid as needed, particularly when renewable sources reduce their energy production because of factors weather changes. Beacon, along with other energy storage developers, would provide the grid with what is called frequency regulation, keeping the flow of electricity at required levels.
Yesterday, FERC approved a plan that the industry group Electricity Storage Association .Electricity Storage Association Latest from The Business Journals Energy player gets boost with air storage system Follow this company .said in a press release will “justly compensate energy storage-based resources that provide certain key reliability services on the electric grid.”
With the FERC approving the plan, FERC chairman Jon Wellinghoff said in a released statement, “It became clear that, by not compensating for the amounts of frequency regulation service that different resources provide, organized markets do not adequately compensate for the additional work performed by faster and more accurate resources.”
The new plan doesn’t just effect Beacon. Rather it also could benefit battery developers such as A123 Systems Inc. .A123 Systems Inc. Latest from The Business Journals UT, A123 end legal scuffle over battery technologyA123 settles patent lawsuit with license exchangeBuckeye Bullet a fitting Fast 50 theme Follow this company .(Nasdaq: AONE) of Waltham or the various companies that are focused on storing energy using compression techniques involving cylinders or caverns.