A NERC official told MISO that recommendations to utilities for restoring power after the loss of normal communication are unlikely to become binding.

Barring a FERC denial, MISO says it will begin sharing gas usage profiles of gas-fired generators with three natural gas pipeline owners before winter.

MISO is preparing nondisclosure agreements and associated Tariff language to share natural gas usage profiles with pipeline operators.

Manitoba Hydro will reimburse MISO for providing extra contingency reserves during May, when maintenance outages are expected to reduce transfer capability.

MISO is beginning a study to assess its frequency response performance and identify needed improvements to mitigate generation loss.

MISO told stakeholders that its own data set might have been partly to blame for generators not responding efficiently to dispatch instructions.

MISO is seeking stakeholder input on how to address declining frequency response capability within the RTO.

MISO’s Reliability Subcommittee last week narrowly approved a more stringent process for deciding on pseudo-tie requests.

MISO will ask FERC to approve new pseudo-tie rules next year, officials said during a Nov. 8 special conference call of the Reliability Subcommittee.

MISO will have a 15.8% planning reserve margin for the 2017/18 planning year, up slightly from last year, according to the RTO’s loss-of-load-expectation study.