MISO Regulatory Organizations & Committees

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Arkansas PSC’s Thomas Makes Way for His Successor

Resigning Chairman Says He Didn’t Want Term ‘to Last Forever’

Sep 13, 2022

Arkansas Commissioner Ted Thomas says his recent decision to step down from the state’s regulatory body is simply a matter of making room for his successor.

MISO, SPP Regulators Finish Pancaking Strawman

Working Group Inventories Rate Issues on RTOs’ Seams

Aug 23, 2022

Tom Kleckner

A working group inventorying rate pancaking issues on the MISO-SPP seams have developed a strawman with four recommendations to improve transmission service.

MISO, SPP Regulators to Engage on Tx Cost Allocation

Feb 28, 2022

Tom Kleckner

MISO and SPP state regulators plan to involve themselves in the RTOs’ discussions about sharing costs from their joint interconnection queue study.

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2021 OMS-MISO Resource Adequacy Survey Shows Less Cause for Concern

Jun 13, 2021

Amanda Durish Cook

MISO and the Organization of MISO States said things are looking up in their annual resource adequacy assessment.

MISO-SPP Targeted Interconnection Study Moves Forward

Apr 7, 2021

Tom Kleckner

MISO and SPP told state regulators Monday that their joint targeted interconnection queue study has moved into its technical phase and promised more stakeholder involvement in the effort in the months ahead. Speaking to the Organization of MISO States and SPP Regional State Committee’s Seams Liaison Committee (SLC), MISO’s Aubrey...

SPP RSC Finalizes Recommendations for SLC

Feb 22, 2021

Tom Kleckner

SPP’s state regulators recently agreed on revisions to a package of recommendations that would improve operations along the RTO’s seam with MISO. Texas Public Utility Commission Chair DeAnn Walker facilitated the Regional State Committee’s modifications to the document, which prioritizes resolving rate pancaking and adds a category for smaller interregional...

OMS Debates MISO Long-term Tx Cost Allocation

Dec 16, 2020

Amanda Durish Cook

MISO state regulators are mulling over "postage stamp" rates, decarbonization goals and portfolio groupings as part of advice it will later send to the grid operator on the cost sharing of new transmission. The Organization of MISO States is putting together a list of guiding principles for allocating the costs...

MISO, SPP Respond to Monitors’ Seams Studies

Sep 16, 2020

Tom Kleckner

MISO’s and SPP’s state regulators this week gave the RTOs’ staffs an opportunity to respond to their market monitors’ suggestions for improving interregional coordination between the two seam neighbors. (See MISO, SPP Regulators Mull Seams Recommendations.) After hearing from MISO’s Jeremiah Doner and SPP’s Casey Cathey, the Seams Liaison Committee...

MISO, SPP to Conduct Targeted Transmission Study

'Game Changer'?

Sep 14, 2020

Tom Kleckner

MISO and SPP on Monday announced a yearlong transmission study to identify projects with "comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient upgrades" after their staffs once again failed to agree on an interregional project this year. The RTOs said the joint study will focus on solutions they believe will "offer benefits to both...

MISO, SPP Regulators Mull Seams Recommendations

RTOs Say They’re Ready for Better Cooperation

Jul 30, 2020

Amanda Durish Cook

MISO and SPP regulators are close to asking the RTOs for improvements to transmission operations on their seam as their market monitors wind down a study on the subject. The short list of recommendations could arrive at an opportune time, with both RTOs signaling a willingness to usher in a...

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