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The Colorado PUC discussed the potential benefits of interstate transmission planning, while the Senate is reviewing a bill requiring RTO membership. | Vibrant Clean Energy
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Minnesota regulators approved a PPA between Xcel Energy and a 200-MW Iowa wind farm that the utility says is the “last good-priced” wind in MISO. | NextEra Energy Resources
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MISO wrapped its years-long Renewable Integration Impact Assessment, with staff pledging more targeted studies on the shift to renewables. | © RTO Insider
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FERC approved unexecuted facilities service agreements for three NextEra Energy wind projects that refused to complete the FSAs in protest of a 2018 order. | NextEra Energy
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The inability of Midwestern grid operators to recover quickly from extreme winter weather drew increasing customer anger, along with scrutiny from regulators. | Ken Bruce
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A study found that MISO can reliably operate with a fuel mix heavy on renewables, but only if its members engage in dramatic transmission expansion. | DTE Energy
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Peak demand was lower in December than in years past, MISO executives said during an informational forum. | Madison Gas and Electric
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The Union of Concerned Scientists is making a pitch to Midwestern states in hopes that they pass sweeping clean energy bills in 2021. | Pattern Energy
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Invenergy provided an update on the status of the Grain Belt Express transmission project during the Missouri Energy Initiative’s Midwest Energy Policy Series. | Invenergy
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Fall in MISO was a study in record wind production, but it came with a price, as it produced more than half of the quarter’s real-time congestion. | MISO
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FERC said NextEra’s Crystal Lake II wind farm in Iowa may be improperly including O&M costs and transmission-related expenses in its reactive power rates. | NextEra
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WEC Energy Group reported year-end net income of $1.13 billion ($3.58/share), up from $1.06 billion ($3.34/share) in 2018. | WEC
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2020 is shaping up to be a seminal period in the Midwest’s transition to renewable energy if new initiatives and state legislation are any indication. | © RTO Insider
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A special task team convened to examine the cause of a shortfall in MISO transmission capacity is seeking input on what measures the RTO could take to support renewables. | MISO
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Continuous improvement of MISO’s wind forecasting is more important than ever now that more than 90% of wind farms in the footprint rely on the RTO’s short-term predictions, officials said.
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MISO’s system can operate on 50% renewable generation if the RTO greenlights dramatically more transmission and its members embrace new technologies, new study results show. | MISO
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Environmentalists, preservationists and renewable energy advocates are at odds with each other over the pending approval of a major MISO transmission line designed to carry wind energy to population centers. | Renew Wisconsin
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MISO is seeking to fine-tune its forecasting of wind generation as it faces the prospect of immense volumes of new capacity coming onto its system by 2023. | Madison Gas and Electric
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MISO’s most recent maximum generation emergency is yet another portent of its increasing need to rethink grid operations, executives told the Board of Directors. | © RTO Insider
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In the wake of its January grid emergency, MISO has pledged to further study generation cutoffs in extreme temperatures and how it can best account for voluntary load curtailments in load forecasting. | IPL
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