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December 26, 2024

MISO

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator is a regional transmission organization that plans transmission projects, administers wholesale markets for its membership and manages the flow of electricity in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. 
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Louisiana PSC Adopts Nearly $2B Entergy Resilience Plan
The Louisiana PSC voted 3-2 to approve Entergy Louisiana’s hotly debated, $1.9 billion grid hardening proposal to be funded by ratepayers, four days after the utility submitted it.
Xcel Energy
Xcel Acknowledges Prairie Island Outage Result of Drilling Accident
Xcel Energy revealed a lengthy outage at its Prairie Island nuclear plant was caused by workers inadvertently drilling through a bundle of cables last fall.
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MISO Offers 2-stage Plan for DER Aggregations in Markets
MISO hopes it can use a two-step approach to Order 2222 compliance, first using a demand response category in 2026, with full market participation of aggregations of distributed resources still on the RTO’s original 2030 timeline that FERC refused last year.
Superior City Council
City Council Vote Stalls Planned Wisconsin Gas-fired Plant
The planned 625-MW gas-fired Nemadji Trail Energy Center encountered another hitch after the Superior City Council refused to move ahead on zoning changes necessary for breaking ground.
ATC and ITC Midwest
Cardinal-Hickory Creek Developers Appeal Injunction on Line’s Final Mile
Two of the developers behind the embattled Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line have appealed to lift an injunction on the last mile of the project that will intersect a wildlife refuge in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Massman Construction Co.
Court: Ameren Still Without Remedy for Years of Rush Island Air Pollution
After more than two years, Ameren Missouri has not yet delivered suitable redress for more than a decade’s worth of Clean Air Act violations via its Rush Island coal plant.
MISO
Feb. Market Ops Prove no Trouble for MISO
February held no operational surprises, MISO reported in a monthly market review.
IBEW Local 2
MISO Chooses Ameren for 3rd Long-range Tx Project
MISO has selected Ameren Transmission Co. of Illinois to build a third transmission project stemming from the RTO's long-range transmission portfolio.
Consumers Energy
FERC Allows MISO Plan to Align Generator Replacement and Suspension Processes
With FERC’s blessing, MISO will synchronize its generator replacement process with its generation suspension and retirement process to give interconnection customers more flexibility.
MISO
MISO Sets Sights on 2025 Completion for New Market Platform
MISO says it’s making steady progress on having a new market platform installed completely by the end of next year and will debut a new day-ahead market clearing engine this spring.

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