12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Notable
Require RTOs to properly value reliable dispatchable resources
Printed page 404 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions
“FERC should require RTOs to ensure that reliable, dispatchable resources are properly valued to provide electricity when needed for the benefit of customers. Potential reforms could include: 1. Requiring renewable generators to provide intra-day backup by dispatchable on-demand generation … 3. Eliminating capacity markets where intermittent resources participate and instead establishing “reliability” markets where dispatchable on-demand resources participate.”
What has happened
- Not started
FERC has not required RTOs to value dispatchable resources properly, has not required renewable generators to provide intra-day backup, and has not eliminated capacity markets in favor of reliability markets. Its resource-adequacy technical conference series closed with a comment request in June 2025 and produced no order on the record available.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Progress is measured on this ask: the reexamination counted at #1026 is inquiry, and this Quote asks for a requirement.
FERC orders are not published in the Federal Register, and ferc.gov would not open for us, so any Commission order after the notices cited could not be read.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- RTO market rules for dispatchable resources
- ID
- 1027