The MISO Board of Directors’ Nominating Committee has settled on three candidates to fill the three seats up for election for terms that begin in January and expire in September.
The MISO forward capacity auction proposal and the broader issue of resource adequacy were the “hot topic” at last week’s Advisory Committee discussion.
Monitor David Patton said that although MISO markets and operations performed well over a warmer-than-usual summer, there is room for improvement.
MISO released a five-year operations business plan last week that calls for new products, technology upgrades and a better-trained workforce.
The MISO external affairs operation wants to reboot its website and is seeking a separate $1 million budget to begin research and development.
MISO Steering Committee members are asking if there is a need formalize the creation and retirement of task teams following the RASC’s contentious July decision to retire the Competitive Retail Solution Task Team.
A group of MISO transmission owners has petitioned Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for more time to draft a petition challenging FERC's Order 1000.
MISO and SPP are moving ahead on a joint transmission study focusing on seven projects, staff told stakeholders at a Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting.
American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has nearly completed the bidding process to sell more than 5,000 MW of merchant generation in Ohio and Indiana.
MISO officials said last week they are still finalizing their forward auction proposal for competitive areas, but the changes won’t be significant and won’t affect a late fall FERC filing.