MISO used its first-ever Market Symposium last week to ask industry leaders how a low-carbon future will influence the electricity market.

Eleven respondents have submitted proposals for the Duff-Coleman project in MISO, the RTO’s first competitive project under FERC Order 1000.

MISO said it will work to improve the role of the Planning Advisory Committee in interregional matters following complaints that the committee was hearing after the fact about IPSAC decisions.

Vice President of Finance Jo Biggers has left MISO after 16 years, the RTO announced last week.

Concerned about the impact of nuclear plant retirements in the state, Michigan officials have asked MISO to conduct a reliability analysis that assumes simultaneous outages at the Palisades and Fermi 2 nuclear plants. 

The MISO Reliability Subcommittee discussed improving frequency response, pseudo-tie congestion management, and its 2016/17 winter Coordinated Seasonal Assessment.

MISO filed revised Tariff language allowing it to recover costs for multi-value transmission projects that benefit PJM customers by charging a fee on exports to PJM.

MISO wants to end the White Pine SSR for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, saying the ATC transmission reconfiguration will ensure reliability.

MISO released details of its forward auction proposal last week while also proposing the addition of six external resource zones.

MISO said that it is developing alternative solutions to the Monitor’s recommendation in the second phase of the ELMP rollout.