FERC will convene a staff-led technical conference on hybrid resources on Thursday, July 23, 2020, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (ET). The conference will be held electronically. Commissioners may attend and participate. This conference will discuss issues related to Hybrid Resources, which for purposes of the conference, will be defined as resources consisting of a generation resource and an electric storage resource paired together. Members of the public may register here.

ESA’s Jason Burwen will speak on the panel The Hybrid Resources Landscape. A description of the panel is below:

This panel will explore the increasing interest in hybrid resources, as demonstrated by the number of interconnection requests pending in interconnection queues and the number of hybrid resource developers seeking to participate in the energy, capacity and ancillary services markets operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (RTO/ISOs). This panel will also explore how developers are configuring their projects to facilitate the interconnection and participation of hybrid resources in these markets. In addition, this panel will examine the factors driving the use of such resources. The panel may include a discussion of the following topics and questions:

1. While this conference uses the term “hybrid resources” to refer to resources consisting of a generation resource and an electric storage resource paired together, we recognize that these resources can be configured differently, from the generation resource and energy storage resource being located at the same facility but operating separately (“co-located”) to the generating facility and energy storage facility operating as one “hybrid” resource. How are these two terms used in the industry? What configurations are most common, and are there new configurations emerging?
2. What are some of the indicators of increasing interest by developers in hybrid 20200713-3053 FERC PDF (Unofficial) 07/13/2020 Docket No. AD20-9-000 4 resources? Where and in what circumstances does interest in hybrid resources appear to be greater? Approximately what percentage of interconnection requests for resources in interconnection queues are composed of hybrid resources? Has there been an increase in requests by hybrid resource developers to participate in energy, capacity and ancillary services markets operated by RTOs/ISOs?
3. How have the economics underlying hybrid technologies changed over the last three to five years? What future trends do you anticipate in this regard? Given these anticipated future trends, please comment on how you anticipate hybrid resources might be configured going forward. How could these changes impact interconnection requests?
4. We understand that increasing numbers of hybrid resources are participating as a single resource in energy, capacity and ancillary services markets operated by RTOs/ISOs. What are the advantages to the hybrid resource participating as a single resource? What are the disadvantages?
5. What factors are driving developers’ decisions in how to configure hybrid resources? For example, what factors do developers consider when deciding to either charge the storage component of the hybrid resource solely from a colocated generation resource or to charge from the grid? In addition, alternating current coupling and direct current coupling are two technical options for interconnection of hybrid or co-located resources. What factors influence developers to choose one form of coupling over another?

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