MISO is looking into a forward market mechanism and improvements to its scarcity and emergency pricing under its resource availability and need project.

The MISO footprint sank deeper into the COVID-19 twilight zone in early April, with demand flattening further and some maintenance outages frozen.

MISO might revise and refile a failed proposal designed to set penalties for non-capacity resources that exercise market power through physical withholding.

MISO predicts energy usage this spring will peak at 100 GW in May, with about 134 GW of total capacity available.

MISO has begun developing the software to create a 30-minute reserve product for use in late 2021.

MISO will revisit a Tariff to define how aggregators of retail customers participate as demand resources as aggregators line up for market participation.

MISO is moving ahead with a proposal to bring solar generation into market dispatch, reusing many rules that brought dispatchable wind generation.

Three years into the project to replace its market platform, MISO is now set to begin moving information to its new private cloud to begin testing.

MISO officials said they agree with almost all the recommendations outlined by the Independent Market Monitor in this year’s State of the Market report.

MISO is proposing Tariff changes that require a market participant to put up additional collateral when it exhibits undue risk to the wholesale market.