Mark Volpe, CEO of the Coalition of Midwest Power Producers, argues MISO's deference to incumbent transmission operators is driving merchant generation out.

Public Citizen asked FERC to rehear its ruling dismissing complaints over MISO’s 2015/16 capacity auction, saying it failed to justify its findings.

MISO has proposed limiting extended planned outages to fewer than 90 days to qualify for participation in its Planning Resource Auction.

FERC capped a three-year-old investigation into MISO’s 2015/16 Planning Resource Auction by finding no market manipulation on Dynegy’s part.

MISO executives said they continue to seek ways to improve the RTO’s response to an increasing number of emergency events.

MISO proposed to change the deadlines and deliverability requirements for next year’s Planning Resource Auction as it released more data from this year.

MISO’s 7th annual capacity auction cleared at $2.99/MW-day in all but 1 zone, a significant decline compared with last year’s nearly uniform $10 price.

In an assessment of this year’s load forecast, MISO told load-serving entities they could do more to support their individual forecasts with documentation.

MISO revived the idea of implementing a seasonal capacity auction as part of its multipronged resource availability and need initiative, but promised to gather more data before defining long-term solutions.

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