MISO executives issued warnings about its future resource adequacy in front of its board of directors while some state regulators and stakeholders pushed back.

MISO’s board of directors gathering covered concern over slipping capacity reserves as heat blistered the footprint and forced emergency preparations.

MISO and the Organization of MISO States’ 2022 resource adequacy survey again sounded the supply alarm rung from the 2022/23 capacity auction results.

MISO transmission customers argued to FERC that MISO should allow customers to decrement their load penalty-free to lessen the possibility of summer blackouts.

MISO’s capacity auction shortfall has nearly doubled its probability of load shedding in its Midwest region, prompting discussion of must-offer requirements.

MISO warned that even a normal amount of demand and generation outages will likely send it into emergency procedures this summer.

Faced with a capacity supply shortage in 2022/23, MISO is considering broadening its generator retirement studies to consider resource adequacy.

MISO’s 2022/23 capacity auction saw all its Midwest zones clearing at the nearly $240/MW-day cost of new entry, signaling a need for additional generation.

CPUC President Marybel Batjer — who has tackled wildfires, blackouts and PG&E — said she'll leave at the end of the year, with five years left in her term.

The California Energy Commission approved a measure to speed the interconnection of batteries to the grid following an emergency order by Gov. Gavin Newsom.