FERC Commissioner comments on distributed power

The former FERC member and its longest serving Chair, Jon Wellinghof, joins Neil Chatterjee, a former commissioner and chairman of FERC, to say with a bipartisan voice that they have a way to firm up ” above all energy policy.”  They say the guarantee for an above all energy policy is “[It’s] by leveraging existing regulatory authorizations to make better use of our existing assets and infrastructure — both utility-owned and “behind” the customer meter.” They point to FERC Order Number 2222 and the power of harnessing ” distributed power plants — which can be stood-up, scaled and dispatched far more quickly and affordably than conventional centralized power plants — drive down costs and boost reliability for all the grid’s users.” 

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