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Washington utilities need to consider storage in resource planning, regulators say

October 13, 2017

Regulators in a growing number of states are including energy storage in their planning processes. Though it fell short of a full-fledged mandate, Massachusetts in June set a 200 MWh energy storage target.

And New York is in the process of developing an energy storage target. Now Washington is moving closer to its neighbor Oregon, which in January released guidelines and timelines for its energy storage mandate.

Washington’s policy statement does not set out specific targets, but outlines expectations and practices that call for the state’s IOUs to include cost and benefit analyses for energy storage in their IRPs.

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