MISO easily managed what turned out to be a “near-normal” March, the RTO said Tuesday.
CenterPoint Energy announced that it will acquire Vectren in an approximately $6 billion deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.
Increased renewable power integration will shift the peak load in MISO to evening hours, with a spikier but shorter daily loss-of-load risk.
MISO stakeholders are concerned over the RTO’s generator retirement proposal, saying it could result in conflicts over transmission interconnection service rights.
FERC has approved a settlement between PJM, Exelon and the Illinois Commerce Commission over abandonment costs for the canceled MAPP transmission project.
FERC approved the MISO proposed cost recovery schedules for its new category of smaller interregional transmission projects with PJM.
MISO challenged a 2017 NERC assessment that found two areas in the RTO would challenges during a disruption of natural gas delivery.
FERC approved the MISO proposal to shorten the window of time it allows for altering estimated capacity volumes for projects in the interconnection queue.
MISO said it has concluded that a short-term capacity reserve product would be cost-effective and beneficial to reliability.
MISO is switching gears on a previous proposal to discontinue its practice of forecasting long-term capacity import and export limits.