The rate of MISO’s grid transformation is distressingly slow and unbelievably quick, members said in a session directed at guiding future market decisions.
Google gained a foothold in the MISO system as the RTO’s Board of Directors approved a subsidiary’s membership application.
MISO staff are done assembling the RTO’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan, presenting a nearly $4 billion draft package to the Board of Directors.
The MISO footprint didn’t come close to its forecasted summertime peak, but ways to improve resource adequacy were on the minds of those at Board Week.
MISO has softened a proposal to crack down on long-term outages from capacity resources, granting some wiggle room for outages taken in the summer.
The Michigan PSC approved a settlement between Consumers Energy and solar developers, resolving arguments over the utility’s obligations under PURPA.
MISO will suspend updates on its resource availability and need project through November to allow time for analysis that may drive future draft rules.
MISO doesn’t expect any challenges meeting demand this fall, announcing that its supply should outpace its relatively tame probable load by about 36 GW.
A surge in generation interconnection requests has MISO proposing to require all new solar to register as dispatchable intermittent resources.
FERC is asking the RTOs for information on aggregated DER portfolios in their wholesale markets, the first significant movement in over a year.