FERC on Tuesday approved MISO's plan to replace its retirement notification process with a more general three-year generation suspension period.

FERC has questions on MISO’s plan to transform its retirement notification process into a catch-all three-year suspension period.

MISO is seeking stakeholder input for its conceptual study to determine how to incorporate transmission outages into its economic planning models.

MISO stakeholders are concerned over the RTO’s generator retirement proposal, saying it could result in conflicts over transmission interconnection service rights.

MISO is close to completing a plan that would give generators three years to submit a decision to retire after signaling their intention.

MISO will delay until next year its proposal to implement a more open-ended approach to its generator retirement process.

MISO has developed a revised approach for providing owners of financially struggling generators more flexibility.

MISO plans by the end of the year to introduce Tariff changes eliminating resource suspensions in favor of a single retirement process.

MISO is planning to eliminate temporary suspensions of generating resources, a move the RTO says will provide resource owners more flexibility.

MISO’s South-to-Midwest transfer limit for the 2017/18 Planning Resource Auction (PRA) will be 1,500 MW, an increase of more than 600 MW.