MISO staff said the footprint is in for more extreme ramping events after a late April drop in wind output.

MISO's annual transmission spending is set to fall after two years of robust investment.

MISO this week said it will need to pause its long-range transmission modeling effort and correct two errors so that it has the clearest picture of future grid performance. Staff said the work will delay the release of reliability and economic models by a few weeks as they prepare a...

MISO has expanded its availability-based capacity accreditation proposal for generation resources by including hours that aren’t so risky. The grid operator originally proposed that a resource’s accreditation would hinge solely on availability during "resource adequacy hours," or the year’s top 5% of hours that MISO believes contain reliability risks. The...

MISO members last week overwhelmingly voted to demand more transparency of stakeholders during public meetings. The Advisory Committee passed rules by a 21-3 margin during its May 19 meeting that will require stakeholders to state their full name and their company before commenting during meetings. Consultants must reveal their client...

FERC last week terminated three more Boyce Hydro hydroelectric licenses for projects in Michigan, the latest chapter in the continuing fallout of the utility’s 16-year ownership of the derelict Edenville Dam. The commission rescinded licenses for the Secord, Smallwood and Sanford hydroelectric projects on the Tittabawasee River, saying Boyce, which...

FERC on Thursday reduced Entergy’s base return on equity to 10.37% from 11%, applying the methodology it adopted for MISO transmission owners in Opinion 569-A a year ago (ER13-1508-001). The order reversed an initial decision issued in 2015 by the presiding administrative law judge governing sales of energy and capacity...

FERC last week ushered through three more unexecuted facilities service agreements (FSAs) between MISO, wind developers and transmission owners. The unexecuted FSAs are a continuing protest against a 2018 commission order reinstating MISO transmission owners’ unilateral rights to self-fund network upgrades. Wind developers are leaving FSAs unsigned of late, hoping...

Backed by state leaders, Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) on Monday rejected hedge fund Elliott Management’s proposal to break up the company into three regionally focused, publicly traded utilities. Elliott — whose management of funds invested in Duke make it one of the company’s top 10 investors, it claims —...

FERC on Monday refused MISO an extra three years to fully incorporate electric storage resources into its markets (ER19-465). The commission was unconvinced by the RTO’s contention that Order 841 compliance, currently slated for mid-2022, would postpone the launch of a new market platform. (However, the decision wasn’t unanimous, with...