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Tx Developers Urge ‘Proactive’ Role; OMS: Respect State Jurisdiction By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO stakeholders are deeply split over how proactive the RTO should be in helping its 15-state region comply with the Clean Power Plan. At an Advisory Committee “hot topic” discussion last week, some stakeholders...

MISO’s research and development team has been tapped to take part in a Department of Energy project to design faster and more accurate generation dispatch software. MISO is partnering with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, General Electric’s Grid Solutions and Gurobi Optimization in the $3.1 million, three-year High-Performance Power-Grid Operation (HIPPO)...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO would reduce the price tag to enter its generator interconnection queue and provide “off ramps” for canceled projects under a final proposal presented Monday to the Planning Advisory Committee. RTO officials said they reduced a proposed $60,000 refundable deposit for study models...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Signaling a newfound sense of urgency, MISO officials last week proposed a switch to a two-season capacity market procurement and appointed a team to consider ways to retain merchant generators in Illinois. Under a draft proposal outlined to stakeholders last week, MISO would...

By Amanda Durish Cook FERC last week reaffirmed its rejection of MISO’s proposal to institute a mandatory capacity market, denying rehearing of its 2012 order on the issue. In June 2012, FERC conditionally approved revisions to improve deliverability of capacity resources in the MISO footprint, but the commission rejected MISO’s...

ERCOT, MISO and SPP all set new generation records for wind in the last two weeks. SPP has seen the most increased activity, setting six new generation peaks this season. The latest came Nov. 15, when SPP eclipsed 9,000 MW of generation for the first time with 9,013 MW. The...

MISO’s Steering Committee put its own operations under inspection during a Nov. 19 meeting, when it addressed stakeholder concerns that meeting materials are being posted too late. Michelle Bloodworth, MISO's executive director of external and stakeholder affairs, said meeting and agenda materials should be posted at least a week before...

MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee continued discussion Wednesday on a revised planning futures process that will help the RTO develop transmission needed to comply with the Clean Power Plan. Durgesh Manjure, MISO’s manager of resource adequacy coordination, said the final CPP plan will be incorporated into the MISO Transmission Expansion Plan...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO on Thursday released the final scope of studies it will conduct through mid-2016 to help the RTO’s 13 states evaluate their compliance options under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. The near-term analysis, expected to be completed by January, will look at the implications...

By Tom Kleckner Market-to-market (M2M) operations between SPP and MISO continue to show improvement, with the two RTOs on track for their second-lowest exchange of funds since the process began in March. M2M is designed to improve price convergence on flowgates along the RTOs’ seams. They compensate each other for...