By Chris O’Malley With its reliance on demand response and behind-the-meter generation increasing amid generator retirements, MISO plans to update the way it sets prices during emergency resource offers. The emergency pricing proposal is “one of the key reforms” that MISO is likely to make next year, Jeff Bladen, executive...

By Chris O’Malley MISO on Wednesday got an earful of stakeholder suggestions about how to spur interregional transmission projects at the seams with PJM and SPP. They range from adopting common evaluation criteria to removing barriers for lower voltage projects to creating a new category for interregional projects. One thing...

By Chris O’Malley CARMEL, Ind. — MISO has declined a request by the Public Consumer Advocates sector for $200,000 to help cover its legal costs in a fight over MISO transmission owners’ return on equity. The decision was announced Wednesday at the MISO Advisory Committee meeting. “We don’t have a...

By Chris O’Malley CARMEL, Ind. — Stinging from objections to Entergy’s proposed Lake Charles transmission upgrade, MISO has launched discussions that could lead to refinements in its procedures for handling out-of-cycle requests. The procedural review was initiated after transmission developers and independent power producers objected to staff recommendations that the...

By Chris O’Malley Responding to a new round of objections by the transmission developer and independent power producer sectors, MISO management has reiterated its recommendation that $200 million in proposed out-of-cycle projects by Entergy be approved by the RTO. “We continue to recommend approval by the board at the April...

By Chris O’Malley CARMEL, Ind. — MISO on Thursday launched the first in a series of stakeholder workshops planned over the next 18 months dedicated to improving resource adequacy as the RTO deals with the retirement of coal-fired generation and the growth of natural gas and renewables. There’s some urgency:...

By Chris O’Malley Patton MISO’s Independent Market Monitor says transmission loading relief requests attributed to a Tennessee Valley Authority constraint are causing price volatility within the RTO. David Patton, CEO of Potomac Economics, told the Markets Committee of the Board of Directors he was concerned MISO is taking costly actions...

By Chris O’Malley and Rich Heidorn Jr. Under questioning from MISO board members, senior RTO officials last week defended their support for Entergy’s controversial requests to spend $200 million on out-of-cycle transmission projects. General Counsel Steve Kozey and Clair Moeller, executive vice president of transmission and technology, told the Board...

By Chris O’Malley [caption id="attachment_13892" align="alignright" width="427"] (Click to zoom.)[/caption] Faulted by some stakeholders for not approving cross-border transmission projects under terms of their joint operating agreement, MISO and PJM have identified what lower-voltage flowgate projects could be done quickly and cheaply on their own sides of the seam. The...

NEW ORLEANS — MISO plans a Tariff filing in March to create a pool of alternate representatives to serve on the six-member Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Deputy General Counsel Eric Stephens told the Advisory Committee the ADR panel can fall short of its four-member quorum in disputes that result in...