Grid operators and regulators hashed out the complexities of integrating distributed energy resources (DER) during a FERC technical conference on boosting the role of energy storage.

The MISO Reliability Subcommittee (RSC) discussed a recent RTO white paper on resource availability, including the increasing frequency of max gen events.

MISO began using Wisconsin transmission to deliver electricity to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula after the failure of two ATC submarine cables.

MISO says it will likely go above and beyond complying with FERC Order 841, as it expands its market rules for energy storage after its initial filing.

Generation developers and transmission providers called for more direction from FERC to improve coordination of “affected system” studies.

FERC rejected EDF’s request that MISO devise a special fast-track option in its interconnection queue for projects that can demonstrate readiness.

Renewable developers sparred with transmission planners for MISO, SPP and PJM Tuesday over the RTOs' affected system studies.

Corporations' decarbonization efforts may be frustrated because of insufficient transmission to move Midwest wind power to load centers.

MISO and PJM will decide by May 18 whether to undertake a coordinated system plan study this year, the RTOs said.

Resilience was in the spotlight after MISO stakeholders selected the subject as their quarterly “hot topic” industry discussion with the RTO’s Board of Directors.