Capacity market participation (FERC Order 2222)
Healthcare and life sciences companies with distributed energy assets, including rooftop solar, backup generation, and battery storage at hospital campuses or manufacturing sites, now have a direct path into wholesale capacity markets under FERC Order 2222, which requires Regional Transmission Organizations to open their markets to aggregated distributed energy resources. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and, depending on regional footprint, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. as the relevant RTO, govern how those assets qualify, aggregate, and bid. Compliance teams are currently working through whether facility-level assets meet the technical eligibility thresholds and how participation interacts with existing demand response contracts.
Watch
- FERC Order 2222 compliance deadlines: RTO tariff filings still rolling out by region
- PJM's Order 2222 compliance filing: hospital backup generation eligibility under review
- Aggregator registration requirements and how they shift liability away from asset owners
- State utility commission rules that may restrict or condition healthcare facility grid participation
- Conflict between existing demand response contracts and new DER aggregation enrollment
Recent material activity in Healthcare & Life Sciences
Active monitoring in place across Healthcare & Life Sciences. Material developments related to capacity market participation (ferc order 2222) will appear here as they are published.