The Upper Midwest needs more transmission, more technology and preservation of dispatchable generation for reliability, the CapX2050 study concluded.
MISO predicts energy usage this spring will peak at 100 GW in May, with about 134 GW of total capacity available.
MISO is preparing to make two resource adequacy filings with FERC aimed at making its capacity resources more readily available.
A report from MISO concludes stakeholders will need to quickly adjust the RTO’s capacity construct to accommodate a resource mix dominated by renewables.
FERC rejected MISO’s bid to expand its Independent Market Monitor’s physical withholding mitigation to include non-capacity resources.
A mild winter across the Midwest footprint made for an easy January for MISO operators, stakeholders heard at the Reliability Subcommittee meeting.
MISO said preparations are in the works for the 2021 GridEx VI exercise, with the RTO drawing on lessons learned during last year’s event.
The growth of DER means the MISO grid will become increasingly fraught with planning challenges that require target responses, stakeholders heard.
Consumers Energy announced plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, putting it on track to achieve that goal a decade earlier than most of its peers.
Two MISO groups will discuss what the RTO can do to break down walls between the MTEP and network upgrade planning for the generator interconnections.