A systemwide emergency, market innovations and the relatively calm summer topped the discussions at MISO’s Board of Directors meetings.
MISO said it might rely on a dormant analysis to create a pricing structure to compensate resources used to restore the system in a blackout.
MISO declared a maximum generation alert Sept. 17 because of tight reserve levels amid forced outages and hotter-than-expected temperatures.
MISO plans to hold a final Order 841 workshop on Oct. 10 to complete its collection of stakeholder opinions on its energy storage participation model.
MISO has sufficient resources available to cope with warm conditions this fall, although there is a risk it may be forced to order emergency procedures.
MISO says the time is not yet ripe for creating a detailed solar capacity credit process.
MISO hopes to become more customer- and employee-focused in 2019, unveiling plans for a new feedback tool, a data gathering project and a new committee.
The Resource Adequacy Subcommittee allowed MISO to use last year’s capacity export limit for Missouri’s Zone 5 after the RTO could not identify the limit.
FERC and NERC are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages in MISO South.
FERC and NERC are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages in MISO South.