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.

The MISO Reliability Subcommittee’s resource availability and need effort could revive a discussion on developing a capacity market divided by season.

MISO said it will defer any initiative to account for outages in capacity planning until it kicks off a broader discussion on overall resource availability.

MISO has decided to delay the formation of external resource zones and seasonal capacity.

The Pennsylvania State Senate approved a tax on virtual transactions, PJM CFO Suzanne Daugherty told the Markets and Reliability Committee.

The NYISO Management Committee discussed the upcoming summer, an annual review of the Market Monitoring Unit and Tariff changes.