美国联邦能源管制委员会（FERC）发布了一项新建议，旨在在电力批发市场中为调频服务确保公正、合理的价格以及消除不当的歧视。建议要求市场运行者适当补偿调频服务提供商。
联邦能源管制委员会解释说，该法规制定提案发觉在现有的电力批发市场中对调频服务的补偿可能无法匹配调频服务所具有的提高运营和经济效率、降低消费者成本的利益。
拟议的规则提供了两部分市场为基础的补偿方法。首先，所有被承认的资源将统一根据容量得到报酬，只要是建成了的为提供调频服务的设备。第二，资源将得到每兆瓦以市场为基础的业绩支付 -或高或低-为回应系统操作员的调度信号。此付款方式也将反映每种资源的性能准确度。
根据联邦能源管制委员会，这将确保市场规则对调频服务提供商发出适当的价格信号。
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a new proposal designed to ensure just and reasonable rates and eliminate undue discrimination in the procurement of regulation service in organized wholesale electricity markets by requiring market operators to appropriately compensate providers for their services.
Regulation service is an ancillary transmission service that protects the grid by correcting deviations in grid frequency and balance on transmission lines with neighboring systems. The notice of proposed rulemaking finds that current compensation practices for frequency regulation service in the organized wholesale energy markets may not acknowledge the benefits of faster ramping resources, which may improve operational and economic efficiency and reduce costs to consumers, FERC explains.
The proposed rule offers a two-part market-based compensation method. First, all cleared resources would receive a uniform capacity payment, to include opportunity costs, for standing ready to provide frequency regulation service. Second, resources would receive a market-based performance payment for each megawatt - up or down - provided in response to a system operator’s dispatch signal. This payment also would reflect a resource’s accuracy of performance.
According to FERC, this would ensure market rules send appropriate price signals to resources that are capable of participating in the regulation service markets.