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By Amanda Durish Cook Concerned about the impact of plant retirements in the state, Michigan officials have asked MISO to conduct a reliability analysis that assumes simultaneous outages at the Palisades and Fermi 2 nuclear plants. Fermi 2 Nuclear Plant Source: DTE Energy Entergy’s Palisades plant on Lake Michigan and...

MISO wants to know how it can improve frequency response under an evolving generation fleet and is asking for stakeholder involvement to draft an issues statement. “This isn’t a new topic. The industry has been grappling with the issue for years,” said Durgesh Manjure, MISO's manager of resource adequacy coordination.

By William Opalka Following a directive from a federal appeals court, FERC ordered ISO-NE to provide more information proving that the 2013-14 winter reliability program resulted in just and reasonable rates (ER13-2266). “ISO-NE should request from program participants information that will enable ISO-NE’s [Internal Market Monitor] to evaluate the competitiveness...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will ask FERC to end a system support resource agreement in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, saying its reliability concerns will be addressed by American Transmission Co.’s transmission reconfiguration until an upgrade expected in service by the end of 2020. MISO said ATC’s proposal to open transmission...

By William Opalka The U.S. Supreme Court cast a long shadow as New York regulators drafted the Clean Energy Standard and its incentives to preserve upstate nuclear power plants. Audrey Zibelman, chair of the state Public Service Commission, said that the order adopted last week was drafted to avoid legal...

The Organization of PJM States Inc. has adopted a resolution urging the PJM Board of Managers to instruct staff to develop market rules “which optimize the participation and value of demand response” in the wholesale markets. The resolution, sent to CEO Andy Ott on July 29, notes that 10,348 MW...

By Tom Kleckner Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke said last week that executives are sharpening their pencils after the company failed to meet analysts’ second-quarter expectations. “We have taken action to reduce [operations and maintenance] expenses,” Fowke told analysts Aug. 3. “As a result, we are confident in our ability...

MISO is considering whether the transfer limit of 876 MW between MISO South and MISO North used in this year’s Planning Resource Auction should be adjusted for the 2017/18 capacity auction and if resources supplying the capacity will be delivered on a firm or non-firm basis. MISO posed several questions...

MISO will monitor maximum generation procedures as a result of pricing errors during a late July max gen warning, the RTO’s Kevin Larson said at last week’s Market Subcommittee meeting. Jeff Bladen, executive director of market services, said pricing corrections for the multiple scheduled resources and one emergency resource were...