The New York Public Service Commission announced Sept. 12 that it cleared the way for smaller energy storage batteries, tidal energy projects, biomass generators and food-waste digestion systems to receive compensation, removing what the agency said are arbitrary and unnecessary restrictions to the nascent technologies. The projects will receive bill credits that are roughly the same as the cost reductions for the utilities in order to mitigate adverse impacts on ratepayers, the commission said. Eligible projects must interconnect to the utility system and have customers in the same utility territory. The commission’s Value of Distributed Energy Resources program initially granted eligibility for compensation to all technologies able to receive net energy metering, such as solar projects, with the intent to expand to all distributed generation technologies “in a technologically-neutral” manner.