Illinois offers the most revenue certainty and dispatch freedom of any MISO state
Developer scorecard for distributed BESS across five states (1 = weakest, 5 = strongest)
Source: MISO, EIA, Illinois General Assembly, Minnesota Department of Commerce, Modo Energy
Note: Each dimension ranks the five states 1 to 5, one state per rank. Arbitrage uses the 2025 real-time TB4 spread, behind-the-meter value the EIA April 2025 commercial retail rate, and the rest state policy and distributed BESS fleet data.
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