Utility executives urged MISO to prepare for the imminent change sweeping the grid with the increased adoption of renewable and distributed resources.

FERC rejected requests to change PJM’s capacity market rules to accommodate seasonal resources.

MISO is contemplating creating a seasonal design for its resource adequacy construct to manage potential reliability risks outside of the summer months.

For the first time, MISO has found a loss-of-load risk outside of summer months, and said it may be more evidence for seasonal capacity supplies.

MISO now cautiously estimates that the benefits of a seasonal capacity auction would outweigh potential drawbacks.

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.

MISO leadership has not yet decided on how it can improve resource availability, though it is evaluating several possible remedies, the RTO said.

FERC has denied requests to shut down debate on whether PJM’s Capacity Performance construct should make room for seasonal resources.

PJM stakeholders at the MRC and MC unanimously endorsed proposed revisions for seasonal aggregation.