The futures assumptions for the MISO 2017 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) are finalized, with the RTO granting its South region a different future weighting.

With a nod from FERC, MISO will apply a more stringent physical withholding rule and remove demand response and energy efficiency from market monitoring in next month’s capacity auction.

The odds of SPP and MISO conducting a second joint study dropped as the RTOs’ reviews are not lining up. Plus the Z2 Task Force is narrowing alternatives.

MISO will file with FERC to correct a recently uncovered eight-year-old Tariff mistake related to the RTO’s day-ahead margin assurance payment.

The MISO Market Subcommittee met on March 9th and discussed improving emergency pricing and cost recovery for manual redispatch.

MISO is considering how to alter its market rules to comply with a FERC order that “softens” the current energy offer cap.

Load forecast data for the MISO 2017/18 PRA shows that all local resource zones have enough capacity to meet their clearing requirements.

MISO will roll some capacity sitting in the definitive planning phase of its interconnection queue into the annual OMS-MISO resource adequacy survey.

The Supreme Court said it would not hear a challenge to FERC Order 1000, which ended the federal right of first refusal in transmission construction.

MISO and PJM staff proposed a solution to the double counting of congestion for pseudo-tied resources, a fix that could apply to those between MISO and SPP.