While MISO says it’s ready for a warmer-than-normal summer, officials cautioned that operators will likely lean on demand response (DR) resources to manage loads during the season.

MISO easily managed what turned out to be a “near-normal” March, the RTO said Tuesday.

Buoyed by recent positive developments, American Electric Power CEO Nick Akins had several reasons Thursday to proclaim the company “in better shape than in the first quarter of last year.”

James Baker, an eminent Republican official who served in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, explained his proposed carbon tax at the GCPA spring conference.

At the Gulf Coast Power Association’s annual spring conference, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness once again moderated a panel of his counterparts from around the country.

Increased renewable power integration will shift the peak load in MISO to evening hours, with a spikier but shorter daily loss-of-load risk.

MISO stakeholders are concerned over the RTO’s generator retirement proposal, saying it could result in conflicts over transmission interconnection service rights.

As they have in the past four years, the trends in natural gas dominated the discussion of FERC’s annual State of the Markets report.

FERC approved the MISO proposed cost recovery schedules for its new category of smaller interregional transmission projects with PJM.

MISO challenged a 2017 NERC assessment that found two areas in the RTO would challenges during a disruption of natural gas delivery.