The MISO Advisory Committee discussed whether to work on a new forward capacity auction revamp and controversy over its survey with OMS.
A debate over the fairness of the postage stamp cost allocation method took center stage at the MISO Advisory Committee’s quarterly hot topic discussion.
Monitor David Patton said PJM’s filing signals a good time for MISO to again propose replacing pseudo-ties with a firm capacity delivery procedure.
The MISO Board of Directors met and reviewed their quiet winter, aside fromFebruary tornadoes in LA and high congestion charges from a MISO-PJM constraint.
MISO expects a 19.2% planning reserve margin this summer, well above its 15.8% requirement, and a percentage point above its projection last year.
EPA’s Clean Power Plan may be undone by the Trump administration, but MISO and PJM officials say their study on the rule yielded valuable insights.
MISO spent $1.3 million to evaluate construction bids in its first competitive transmission process, funded by the 11 developers that submitted proposals.
Preliminary results of the MISO and SPP '16 coordinated system study are in, and the RTOs say one project has potential, but it fails MISO’s cost threshold.
The futures assumptions for the MISO 2017 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) are finalized, with the RTO granting its South region a different future weighting.
With a nod from FERC, MISO will apply a more stringent physical withholding rule and remove demand response and energy efficiency from market monitoring in next month’s capacity auction.