Planning Resource Auction (PRA)
MISO’s recent resource adequacy filings with FERC will affect the timeline of an otherwise unremarkable capacity auction in terms of load forecasts.
MISO posted draft 2019/20 Planning Resource Auction data that are virtually unchanged from last year’s early predictions.
MISO officials say they will follow through on most recommendations in its Independent Market Monitor’s 2017 State of the Market report.
MISO’s IMM urged the RTO to require that planning resources have firm transmission to ensure they can deliver their full installed capacity.
The Resource Adequacy Subcommittee allowed MISO to use last year’s capacity export limit for Missouri’s Zone 5 after the RTO could not identify the limit.
MISO is planning a study to ensure external resources bordering more than one of its local resource zones participates in only one zone.
MISO, commited to moving forward, said it plans to refile a plan to create external capacity resource zones with FERC by the end of the month.
FERC rejected MISO’s proposal to create external zones for its annual capacity auction but left the door open for a revised plan in the future.
At last week's MISO Resource Adequacy Subcommittee meeting, staff reviewed how capacity import limits can bind in the RTO's annual capacity auction.
MISO’s plan to create external resource zones in its annual capacity auction isn’t detailed enough on several fronts, FERC told the RTO.
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