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By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO has issued its annual survey asking stakeholders to rank possible market modifications the RTO should undertake as part of its Market Roadmap process. Adams | © RTO Insider The survey contains 34 proposals. Stakeholder results will be measured alongside staff weightings to...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is considering establishing a possible commercial trading hub in Mississippi and will conduct stress tests and sensitivity analyses into the fall to help support its decision. Robinson | © RTO Insider The RTO will use 12 to 15 months of hourly price...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO last week committed to adopting its Independent Market Monitor’s recommendation to implement market mitigation for a new category of narrowly constrained areas (NCAs) identified by momentary congestion and associated market power. Chatterjee | © RTO Insider ‎Within a month, the RTO will...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Behind-the-meter generation would need to demonstrate its deliverability before offering into MISO’s capacity auction, under a new proposal being floated by the RTO. The proposal would allow “excess” behind-the-meter (BTM) generation without existing transmission service to submit to an optional engineering study identifying...

By Jason Fordney SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Wednesday expressed concerns that expanding CAISO into a regional grid operator would result in higher electric bills, job losses and the export of energy development to other states. Members of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy did not appear to...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — In a shift opposed by some stakeholders, MISO has adopted the Independent Market Monitor’s recommendation to base pricing of external capacity resources on bordering balancing authorities. Rauch | © RTO Insider MISO is now proposing a single clearing price for resources based on...

ERCOT’s wholesale market performed “competitively” in 2016, the ISO’s Independent Market Monitor, Potomac Economics, said in its annual State of the Market report filed last week with the Public Utility Commission of Texas. However, the Monitor recommended seven potential improvements to system operations and price formation in the energy and...

By Jason Fordney The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) on Thursday agreed to join the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM), adding the country’s largest municipal utility to the growing electricity market. LADWP is the 11th utility to announce plans to participate in the CAISO-run market, which is...

By Robert Mullin Powerex has signed an agreement with CAISO to become the first non-U.S. participant in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). Vancouver-based Powerex markets the surplus generation of parent BC Hydro, Canada’s third largest utility. The company’s role is similar to that of U.S. federal power marketing agencies, such...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Exelon announced Tuesday that it will retire Three Mile Island Unit 1 in September 2019 “absent needed policy reforms.” The announcement was not unexpected after the company acknowledged May 24 that the plant had not cleared the PJM capacity auction for delivery year 2020/21, the third...