DTE Energy asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s ruling upholding EPA’s power to halt construction at plants in violation of the Clean Air Act.
A NERC official told MISO that recommendations to utilities for restoring power after the loss of normal communication are unlikely to become binding.
NiSource lost $44.3 million ($0.14/share) in the second quarter, with company officials pinning the sagging earnings on an expensive debt-related charge.
MISO regulators gathered to discuss how the electricity sector will accommodate the growth of distributed energy resources within the RTO’s footprint.
MISO’s Steering Committee declined to reconsider a proposal that would allow funders of transmission upgrades for lines under 345 kV to recover costs.
MISO must fully consider the special attributes of energy storage devices before developing new rules, stakeholders said.
Critics are pushing back on a plan by UMERC to build two natural gas-fired generators in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
MISO’s system operated as intended in June, which saw the usual early summer peak loads and lower-than-expected natural gas prices.
MISO will begin using its Transmission Expansion Plan dispatch modeling in interconnection queue studies beginning Aug. 1.
Stakeholders are at odds with MISO over some aspects of its interconnection queue rules during a time when the queue is beset by “unprecedented” backlogs.