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By Amanda Durish Cook The Brattle Group last week endorsed MISO’s proposed Competitive Retail Solution, conditioned on the RTO adopting a wider demand curve that the consulting firm developed. © RTO Insider Brattle’s demand curve, revealed in its latest analysis of MISO’s proposed forward auction, is capped at 140% of...

By Amanda Durish Cook Shareholders voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve Great Plains Energy’s $12.2 billion acquisition of Westar Energy. Shareholders cast their votes in separate meetings at Great Plains’ headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., and Topeka, Kan., where Westar is based. Company spokesmen said stakeholders approved all proposals necessary with...

By Amanda Durish Cook A proposal by MISO and ITC Holdings to allocate the costs of phase angle regulating transformers (PARs) to entities outside of MISO is not just and reasonable, FERC ruled last week. The commission’s Sept. 22 order upheld Administrative Law Judge Steven Sterner’s 2012 decision prohibiting MISO...

Marcus Hawkins, a senior engineer in the Division of Regional Energy Markets at the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, has joined the Organization of MISO States as its director of member services and advocacy. Hawkins will assist OMS Executive Director Tanya Paslawski. Marcus Hawkins Courtesy of Marcus Hawkins Hawkins, who has...

FERC accepted Entergy’s compliance filing responding to a December ruling that found fault with the company’s accounting in its fourth annual bandwidth filing (ER10-1350). (See FERC Rules Against Entergy over ‘Bandwidth’ Accounting.) The commission, however, found that it had “inadvertently” not included in its December order a requirement to calculate...

FERC said MISO can continue doling out refunds to Wisconsin utilities, upholding the RTO’s new cost allocation methodology for three system support resource power plants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (EL14-34, et al.). The commission’s Sept. 22 order determined that MISO’s plan to refund load-serving entities overcharged under the old methodology...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO posted the second draft of the 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan report last week,  complete except for the executive summary and Appendix A2’s cost allocation explanation. Hellalat © RTO Insider MISO’s Omar Hellalat told the Planning Advisory Committee last week that stakeholder feedback forms, which will be...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Stakeholders support MISO’s push to revise its cost allocation process for market efficiency projects (MEPs), but their suggested approaches are a mixed bag. By the end of this year, MISO will release a conceptual proposal that may expand its market efficiency voltage threshold...

By Amanda Durish Cook FERC has brushed aside a complaint brought forward by two companies about Ameren Illinois’ annual informational formula rate update and true-up (ER16-1169). In April, Southwestern Electric Cooperative and Southern Illinois Power Cooperative challenged the $214.4 million revenue requirement rate filing on several fronts. Although FERC agreed...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will file a revised set of interconnection queue changes with FERC on Oct. 21, and this time it says it has “overwhelming” stakeholder support for the changes. Aliff © RTO Insider In its second attempt at a queue reform filing, MISO proposed...