By Chris O’Malley CARMEL, Ind. — News that MISO is reconsidering a market congestion project in Southern Indiana sparked renewed complaints from developers over the RTO’s transmission planning processes. MISO officials told the Planning Advisory Committee on Wednesday that they were considering swapping one Southern Indiana project for a second...

By Chris O’Malley CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will propose closing the day-ahead market one hour earlier during Daylight Savings Time and reducing the clearing time by an hour in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s final rule on gas and electric schedules. MISO officials said their proposal — Alternative...

By Chris O’Malley A list of joint transmission projects between MISO and SPP has been trimmed and sent further down the line toward possible board approval late this year. MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee last week voted to recommend to the MISO-SPP Joint Planning Committee three projects totaling $156.9 million near...

By Chris O’Malley MISO stakeholders have submitted recommendations for refining the out-of-cycle request process in the wake of transmission developer complaints over Entergy’s $187 million transmission upgrade near Lake Charles, La. MISO approved the OOC request, which Entergy said was necessary to meet the sudden needs of an industrial customer,...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. MILWAUKEE — MISO's Board of Directors will generally be limited to three three-year terms, while the board chairman will be allowed to hold the gavel for a maximum of five years, under rule changes approved amid much gnashing of teeth last week. The three-term limit comes...

By Chris O’Malley MISO officials on Thursday unveiled an eye-opening starting point for a redesign of the stakeholder process, with a straw man proposal to reduce by more than one-third the number of committees from the RTO’s arguably Byzantine structure. The presentation at the MISO Steering Committee, meeting in Milwaukee,...

By Chris O’Malley and Rich Heidorn Jr. MILWAUKEE — MISO Independent Market Monitor David Patton on Wednesday called for tighter rules on wayward generators, more precise real-time pricing and a fix for Financial Transmission Rights funding shortfalls. He also engaged in a spirited debate with board members over his longstanding...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. MILWAUKEE — Dynegy CEO Robert Flexon last week defended his company’s bidding strategy in MISO’s April capacity auction and said the controversy over the results signals the need for a regulatory change in Illinois. Flexon © RTO Insider On May 28, Public Citizen Inc. and the...

By Chris O’Malley MISO stakeholders will complete voting on June 16 on three options for responding to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s final rule on coordinating gas and electric schedules (RM14-2, Order 809). MISO could post ballot results as early as June 19 and announce a decision by June 30...

By Chris O’Malley The Organization of MISO States voted last week to convene discussions on ways to improve the RTO’s stakeholder process and address friction between the RTO and some of its members. OMS President Libby Jacobs noted that MISO has several efforts under way already, including a white paper...