The MISO Steering Committee approved an expanded role for the Energy Storage Task Force, provided it doesn’t impede discussions in other stakeholder forums.

FERC approved MISO’s plan to improve its procurement of reserves in MISO South.

MISO will not move forward with an economic project in MISO South this year, based on results from the RTO’s market congestion planning study.

In a special conference call, MISO officials went over how the RTO would treat energy storage resources in its markets in compliance with FERC Order 841.

MISO is planning a study to ensure external resources bordering more than one of its local resource zones participates in only one zone.

MISO’s replacement of its market platform is complete, with the RTO now settling at five-minute intervals.

MISO is probing what eligibility requirements it should establish before allowing energy storage resources to function as transmission assets.

MISO is planning to file with FERC in October a proposal to create two new benefit metrics to appraise new market efficiency transmission projects.

The future electric grid that upends traditional utility operations may be soon, according to industry experts speaking at the MISO Market Symposium.

The NERC Board of Trustees approved Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s and Upper Michigan Energy Resources’ requests to move to ReliabilityFirst from MRO.