MISO will fire up its capacity auction machinery beginning April 18 after it was forced to delay the auction last month on a FERC order.

Two competitive electricity organizations have protested FERC’s show-cause order to MISO that will ultimately downsize resources’ capacity accreditation values.

MISO tried to quell unease over its intended capacity accreditation with a stakeholder workshop to show that its proposal lines up with a new report.

NYISO briefed the Installed Capacity/Market Issues Working Group on its efforts to improve capacity accreditation.

MISO’s attempt to justify a new resource accreditation process gave way to heated debate over how to best alleviate the footprint’s reliability challenges.

FERC rejected SPP’s capacity accreditation methodology for wind and solar resources and granted a rehearing request of its prior approval.

FERC shut down a pair of requests for exemptions from a resource availability cutoff under MISO’s new availability-based accreditation method.

Entergy has asked FERC to exclude some of its power plants from rules contained in MISO’s new availability-based accreditation method.

MISO can continue as planned with its seasonal capacity auction and availability-based resource accreditation, FERC ruled, rejecting rehearing requests.

FERC dismissed a complaint that alleged ISO-NE has “undue preference” for gas generators in its capacity accreditation, operating reserve rules.