Name: MISO Regional Expansion Criteria and Benefits Working Group Meeting
Start: 2024-05-28
End: 2024-05-28
Location: Teleconference / Webex / Webinar / Virtual Event

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Texas Supreme Court Rules for ERCOT, PUC During Uri

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled in favor of ERCOT's emergency price increase during Winter Storm Uri.

Xcel Energy

Jun 16, 2024ERCOTTom Kleckner

The Texas Supreme Court ruled ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission were within the law when they raised wholesale prices to more than 300 times above normal during Winter Storm Uri.

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OCCTO

Stakeholder Soapbox: A New Twist on Capacity Markets in Japan

Jun 16, 2024MarketsStakeholder

Recent developments in Japan have revealed that its market differs in significant ways from those in the U.S. — including from the very PJM capacity market on which it modeled its own.

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RWE has begun the site assessment survey for the offshore wind farm it plans to build off north California coast.

RWE

Survey to Begin for Planned Calif. Floating Wind Farm

Jun 16, 2024NetZero InsiderJohn Cropley

RWE will examine the deep-sea lease area where it plans to build the 1.6 GW Canopy Offshore Wind Farm.

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California Energy Commission

Calif. Clean Transportation Program Needs Equity Emphasis

Jun 16, 2024Equity & EconomicsAyla Burnett

California must find ways to allocate more of its funding for ZEV infrastructure to disadvantaged communities, according to an advisory committee for the Energy Commission's Clean Transportation Program Investment Plan.

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NERC's RSTC met at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle

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NERC: ITCS to Become ‘Road map’ for Grid Studies

Jun 13, 2024ERO InsiderHolden Mann

NERC staff say the Interregional Transfer Capability Study will lay "important groundwork" for future reliability assessments.

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FERC Commissioner Allison Clements speaks at the Energy Bar Association's Northeast Chapter in D.C.

Clements Says Order 1920 Will Help States, not Usurp Authority

Jun 16, 2024Public PolicyJames Downing

FERC Commissioner Allison Clements said Order 1920 will make it easier for states to address the changes facing the industry.

SPP’s REAL Team Approves Base PRMs, Sufficiency Value Curve

Jun 16, 2024ResourcesTom Kleckner

SPP’s REAL Team approved base planning reserve margins and a sufficiency valuation curve, codifying months of work.

FERC Issues Show Cause Order on TO Self-funding in 4 RTOs

Jun 14, 2024ResourcesAmanda Durish Cook

The proceedings will look into the practice by MISO, PJM, SPP and ISO-NE of allowing transmission owners to self-fund network upgrades needed to bring generation online, saying the practice may amount to favoring TOs over interconnection customers.

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NERC's Standards Committee held its quarterly in-person meeting at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle.

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NERC Committee Seeks Focus in Busy Standards Projects

Jun 12, 2024Standards/ProgramsHolden Mann

NERC's Standards Committee worked to keep order in a packed slate of standards development projects this week.

Renewable Developers Oppose Proposed ERCOT IBR Rule

Jun 11, 2024Regional EntitiesTom Kleckner

Several renewable energy developers are opposing ERCOT stakeholders’ approval of a controversial rule change that would impose voltage ride-through requirements on IBRs.

ERCOT TAC Endorses Rule for Inverter-based Resources

Jun 10, 2024Regional EntitiesTom Kleckner

ERCOT stakeholders and staff came to an agreement on a rule change that imposes voltage ride-through requirements on IBRs.

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D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

DC Circuit Upholds NYISO 17-year Amortization Rule

Jun 14, 2024State and Local PolicyJohn Cropley

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld FERC’s approval of a key NYISO capacity market price determinant that the state utility regulator says could raise costs by hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Conference Explores AI Solutions to Data Center Power Demand

Jun 13, 2024Building DecarbonizationK Kaufmann

Artificial intelligence may be driving new energy demand from hyperscale data centers, but it could also help find new solutions to meet that demand.

Bill Gates’ TerraPower Breaks Ground on Advanced Nuclear Plant

Jun 11, 2024Company NewsJames Downing

TerraPower broke ground on its Natrium reactor demonstration project in Wyoming, making it the first advanced reactor to enter construction.

RTO Insider

From left: Penni Conner, Eversource; Larry Susskind, MIT; Gretchen Kershaw, DOE; Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, New Roots AME Church, and Moderator Janet Gail Besser

New England Stakeholders Talk Community Engagement at Roundtable

Jun 17, 2024ISO-NEJon Lamson

Early and meaningful engagement with host communities will be an essential component of expediting energy permitting and siting processes, panelists said at a New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable.

Counterflow: Fusion is Getting Increasing Attention

Jun 17, 2024CommentarySteve Huntoon

Renewable resources generally are not dispatchable. Fusion is getting increasing attention as a possible salvation.

WAPA Tariff Falls Short of Reciprocity Status, FERC Finds

Jun 13, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

The Western Area Power Administration’s non-jurisdictional Open Access Transmission Tariff does not meet the standard of an “acceptable reciprocity tariff,” despite recent revisions the federal power agency incorporated into the tariff, FERC ruled.

Senate Confirms Chang as Clements’ Replacement on FERC

Jun 13, 2024RTO InsiderJames Downing

The Senate confirmed Judy Chang to a five-year term at FERC, meaning the commission will be at a full complement of five members even after Commissioner Allison Clements leaves at the end of June.

An Arizona Corporation Commission vote has cleared the way for an expansion of UNS Electric gas-fired Black Mountain Generating Station.

UniSource Energy

Critics Call out Ariz. Commission for ‘Troubling’ Precedent

Jun 13, 2024CAISO/WEIMElaine Goodman

Arizona regulators are under fire for decisions on the expansion of a UNS gas-fired plant and third-party IRP audits.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative

FERC ALJ Lambastes Basin Electric’s Business Practices

Jun 13, 2024Public PolicyJames Downing

A FERC administrative law judge found that Basin Electric Power Cooperative improperly included the costs of a for-profit gasification business in its wholesale electricity rates.

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NPCC

NPCC Predicts Adequate Electricity Supply this Summer

Jun 6, 2024Regional EntitiesHolden Mann

NPCC said all subregions should have adequate supply to meet demand this summer despite recent generation retirements.

WECC Flags Hydro in BC, SW Heat as Potential Summer Concerns

Jun 5, 2024Regional EntitiesAyla Burnett

Extreme heat in the Desert Southwest and low hydro in the Northwest could pose reliability problems for the Western Interconnection this summer, although the region doesn’t face an alarming risk for grid emergencies, WECC officials said.

USEA Event Looks into Addressing Growing Data Center Demand

Jun 5, 2024Resource AdequacyJames Downing

Data center expansion is a major part of the power industry’s return to demand growth around the country, and the United States Energy Association hosted a webinar with industry leaders on how the sector’s growth will play out.

NERC Targets IBR Modeling Concerns in Level 2 Alert

Jun 5, 2024NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

NERC is requesting a range of information on inverter-based resource modeling because of a series of grid disturbances in recent years.

NOAA

SPP: Enough Generation to Meet Summer Demand

Jun 4, 2024Resource AdequacyTom Kleckner

SPP says it will have enough generation to meet energy demand despite higher regional temperatures this summer, according to its biannual seasonal assessment.