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By Amanda Durish Cook MADISON, Wisc. — MISO state regulators and industry officials gathered this week to discuss how the region’s electricity sector will accommodate the budding growth of distributed energy resources within the RTO’s footprint. While the outlook of participants at the Organization of MISO States’ Aug. 1 DER...

By Rory D. Sweeney Environmentalists last week urged FERC to decide whether states can control participation of energy efficiency resources (EERs) in RTOs, while state officials said the commission should take no action. The group Advanced Energy Economy petitioned FERC on June 2 to issue a declaratory order ruling that...

By Amanda Durish Cook The Organization of MISO States (OMS) on Monday voted to lodge a protest in an ongoing dispute over whether states can prohibit energy efficiency resources from entering RTO markets. OMS Executive Director Tanya Paslawski said the protest asks FERC to apply the same treatment to EE...

By Amanda Durish Cook In a departure from previous years, the 2017 Organization of MISO States-MISO resource adequacy survey suggests the RTO will have sufficient capacity to meet near-term planning requirements. The annual results show the RTO will have 2.7 to 4.8 GW of excess resources from 2018 to 2022,...

The Organization of MISO States has adopted a stricter protocol for entering closed session during board meetings. OMS will now require requests for closed session be circulated a few days before a meeting with an explanation for the private conversation. If an objection is raised, the OMS Executive Committee will...

By Amanda Durish Cook Organization of MISO States members will vote via email on whether to file comments in the Independent Market Monitor’s complaint over PJM’s pseudo-tie proposal (EL17-62). At an OMS Board of Directors meeting April 20, staffer Marcus Hawkins said if the group agrees to file comments, the...

MISO stakeholders will decide in an email vote whether it’s worth debating the cost allocation for holders of firm transmission service reservations of more than 1,000 MW between MISO Midwest and South. The Load-Serving Entities sector presented a motion to the Resource Adequacy Subcommittee on Wednesday asking that MISO drop...

MISO and the Organization of MISO States have begun distributing their annual joint resource adequacy survey with a new calculation method some stakeholders believe is overly conservative. Landstrom | © RTO Insider In addition to counting as available capacity all generation projects with signed interconnection agreements — as in the...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will roll a 35% share of the capacity from resources sitting in the definitive planning phase of its interconnection queue into the annual resource adequacy survey conducted with the Organization of MISO States — over the objections of some stakeholders who seek...

By Amanda Durish Cook and Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Texas Public Utility Commissioner Ken Anderson and other state regulators sharply questioned MISO officials Monday over its refusal to share with them raw cost data on transmission projects. Anderson | © RTO Insider The exchange came during an in-person gathering...