The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the cost allocation for the Presque Isle system support resource agreements to Michigan Upper Peninsula consumers.

FERC rejected a Michigan request for a stay of a previous order approving MISO’s refund report related to a system support resource (SSR).

The D.C. Circuit Court will hear oral arguments on April 6 in a challenge to a 2016 FERC order that reallocated most costs for the Presque Isle SSR agreement.

FERC accepted MISO’s plan to refund Michigan ratepayers $24.6 million in overcharges stemming from SSR agreements imposed on Presque Isle.

FERC ruled that WEPCo overcharged ratepayers on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by almost $23 million under MISO-ordered SSR agreements.

Critics are pushing back on a plan by UMERC to build two natural gas-fired generators in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will get its own utility, two new generating plants and maybe additional transmission following actions by regulators and MISO.

FERC said MISO can continue doling out refunds to Wisconsin utilities, upholding the RTO’s new cost allocation methodology for three system support resource power plants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

MISO said it would review a plan that could end the system support resource agreement for White Pine Unit 1 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.