The Behind-the-Meter Marketplace Is Buzzing | TD World

Behind-the-meter DERs and virtual power plants are proliferating but failing to scale due to fragmented interconnection standards, uneven FERC Order 2222 compliance across jurisdictions, and utility compensation models that undervalue grid services. DOE and IEEE research identifies systemic bottlenecks: lack of interoperability, disjointed retail-wholesale market rules, and structural barriers preventing VPPs from full market participation. If you're building energy software for behind-the-meter assets, your customer's bottleneck is not technology—it's that grid operators won't let them plug in. FERC Order 2222 fragments across states, and each utility has its own interconnection rules, compensation buckets, and minimum-bid thresholds; you need to embed compliance for multiple jurisdictions, not one platform.