Benjamin Sloan, a former attorney in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, will become the Organization of MISO States’ new director of regulatory affairs.

Declining costs and new market rules are opening opportunities for energy storage, but the technology’s operating characteristics are challenging RTOs.

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness told the Board of Directors the grid operator will use favorable budget variances to fund the addition of real-time co-optimization.

MISO will this year draw on three sets of contributors to create its load forecast for 2020 transmission planning.

MISO said it will explore whether to alter its long-term planning models to factor in expectations for an increased number of outages.

American Electric Power will buy Sempra Energy’s renewable business in a $1.1 billion deal that will triple AEP’s renewable portfolio.

Stakeholders are urging MISO to slow downits disjointed resource availability and need effort until it can measure the effects of 3 related FERC filings.

MISO’s recent resource adequacy filings with FERC will affect the timeline of an otherwise unremarkable capacity auction in terms of load forecasts.

MISO managed its eighth maximum generation event in six years last month despite the difficulty of pulling together the forecast leading up to the episode.

FERC denied the Michigan PSC request to reconsider a decision over refunds associated with a SSR agreement between MISO and the White Pine plant.